Personality and major depression: A Swedish longitudinal, population-based twin study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1113-1120

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a   Gatz, Margaret ^b,c   Gardner, Charles O ^a   Pedersen, Nancy L ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33749357022     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.10.1113     Document Type: Article

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