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Assessing risk for the Tourette spectrum of disorders among first-degree relatives of probands with Tourette syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 16 Feb 1996
Santangelo S L, Pauls D L, Lavori P W, Goldstein J M, Faraone S V, Tsuang M T
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have indicated that genetic investigations of Tourette syndrome (TS) should focus on a phenotype that includes not only TS, but chronic tics (CT) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as well. These studies have shown that sex may play a role in determining which of the disorders in the TS spectrum is expressed in a susceptible individual. Female relatives of TS probands far more often express...
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