Familial brain wave patterns: Study of a 12-sib family

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 141-153

  Stassen, H H ^a,b   Bomben, G ^a   Hell, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b Research Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Familial heritable traits; Phenotypic range; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 0031756423     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041444-199800830-00003     Document Type: Article

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