Major depressive disorder in a community-based twin sample: Are there different genetic and environmental contributions for men and women?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 557-563

  Bierut, Laura Jean ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^a   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^a   Dinwiddie, Stephen H ^b   Madden, Pamela A F ^a   Statham, Dixie J ^c   Dunne, Michael P ^d   Martin, Nicholas G ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TERMINOLOGY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032973718     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.6.557     Document Type: Article

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