The Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development: Influences of age, sex, and impairment on rates of disorder

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 801-808

  Simonoff, Emily ^d   Pickles, Andrew ^e   Meyer, Joanne M ^a   Silberg, Judy L ^a   Maes, Hermine H ^a   Loeber, Rolf ^b   Rutter, Michael ^e   Hewitt, John K ^c   Eaves, Lindon J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOBIA; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS;

EID: 0030850418     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830210039004     Document Type: Article

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