Comorbidity among dimensions of childhood psychopathology: Converging evidence from behavior genetics

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-31

  Rhee, Soo H ^a   Lahey, Benjamin B ^b   Waldman, Irwin D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Comorbidity; Externalizing; Internalizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922975454     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12102     Document Type: Article

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