Environmental exposures and their genetic or environmental contribution to depression and fatigue: A twin study in Sri Lanka

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ball, Harriet A ^a   Siribaddana, Sisira H ^b   Sumathipala, Athula ^a,b   Kovas, Yulia ^a,c   Glozier, Nick ^a,d   McGuffin, Peter ^a   Hotopf, Matthew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Sri Lankan Twin Registry   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB FINDING; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SRI LANKA; TWINS; UNEMPLOYMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); DISEASES IN TWINS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SRI LANKA; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77649171240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-13     Document Type: Article

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