Investigation of shared genetic effects for psychotic and obsessive symptoms in young adult twins

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 276-282

  Fagnani, Corrado ^a   Bellani, Marcella ^b   Tansella, Michele ^b   Balestrieri, Matteo ^c   Toccaceli, Virgilia ^a   Patriarca, Valeria ^a   Stazi, Maria Antonietta ^a   Brambilla, Paolo ^c,d  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environment; Heritability; Interpersonal sensitivity; Paranoid ideation; Psychoticism; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958289097     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 01651781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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