Familial aggregation of eye-tracking endophenotypes in families of schizophrenic patients

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-264

  Hong, L Elliot ^a,b   Mitchell, Braxton D ^a   Avila, Matthew T ^a   Adami, Helene ^a   McMahon, Robert P ^a   Thaker, Gunvant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EYE TRACKING; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLINGS;

EID: 33644774620     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.3.259     Document Type: Article

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