Heritabilities of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression in earthquake exposed Armenian families

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 261-266

  Goenjian, Armen K ^a,b,c,e   Noble, Ernest P ^b   Walling, David P ^c   Goenjian, Haig A ^d   Karayan, Ida S ^c   Ritchie, Terry ^b   Bailey, Julia N ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Collaborative Neuroscience Network ^*

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Disaster; Heritability; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ANXIETY; ARMENIA; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 57149126970     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e3283060f48     Document Type: Article

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