The Genetic Epidemiology of Phobias in Women: The Interrelationship of Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, Situational Phobia, and Simple Phobia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 273-281

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a   Neale, Michael C ^a   Kessler, Ronald C ^b   Heath, Andrew C ^c   Eaves, Lindon J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; ONSET AGE; PHOBIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGORAPHOBIA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0026587846     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820040025003     Document Type: Article

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