Familial resemblance of borderline personality disorder features: Genetic or cultural transmission?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Distel, Marijn A ^a   Rebollo Mesa, Irene ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Derom, Catherine A ^b   Trull, Timothy J ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BORDERLINE STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; SPOUSE; TWINS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

EID: 65449179201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005334     Document Type: Article

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