Current strategies for investigating the genetic and environmental risk factors for affective disorders

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 186, Issue MAR., 2005, Pages 179-181

  Farmer, Anne ^a   Eley, Thalia C ^a   McGuffin, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN GENOME; MOOD DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 14844316036     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.186.3.179     Document Type: Editorial

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