Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Same Genes, (Partly) Different Environments?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 716-722

  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

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; TWINS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MODELS, GENETIC; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0026664932     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820090044008     Document Type: Article

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