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Replication of the Stockholm Adoption Study of alcoholism. Confirmatory cross-fostering analysis.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Aug 1996
Sigvardsson S, Bohman M, Cloninger C R
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BACKGROUND: Two forms of alcoholism with distinct clinical features and mode of inheritance were first distinguished in the Stockholm Adoption Study. This involved a large sample of children born in Stockholm, Sweden, who were adopted at an early age and reared by nonrelatives. Type 1 alcoholism had adult onset and rapid progression of dependence without criminality, whereas type 2 had teenage onset of recurrent...
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