Twin studies of adult psychiatric and substance dependence disorders: Are they biased by differences in the environmental experiences of monozygotic and dizygotic twins in childhood and adolescence?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 625-633

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b   Gardner Jr , Charles O ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CHILDHOOD; DEPRESSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PANIC; PHOBIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BULIMIA; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL DISORDERS; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0031745437     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798006643     Document Type: Article

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