Genesis: Creating a composite index of the vulnerability to anxiety and depression in a community-based sample of siblings

Twin Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 316-322

  Sham, P C ^a   Sterne, A ^a   Purcell, S ^a   Cherny, S ^a,b   Webters, M ^a   Rijsdijk, F ^a   Asherson, P ^a   Ball, D ^a   Craig, I ^a   Eley, T ^a   Goldberg, D ^a   Gray, J ^b   Mann, A ^b   Owen, M ^c   Plomin, R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Genetics; Neuroticism; Sibships; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIBLING; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 17744380419     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905200320565292     Document Type: Article

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