Anorexia nervosa and major depression: Shared genetic and environmental risk factors

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 469-471

  Wade, Tracey D ^b   Bulik, Cynthia M ^a   Neale, Michael ^b   Kendler, Kenneth S ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWINS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034062205     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.3.469     Document Type: Article

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