Genetic Implications in Assortative Mating of Affective Disorders
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (3) , 236-239
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.138.3.236
Abstract
Summary: Psychiatric disorders in a sample of spouses of probands with recurrent Primary Affective Disorders (PAD) and in their first degree relatives were evaluated and compared with those in the spouses of control subjects without psychiatric illnesses. No differences were found in the risk for PAD, but spouses of PAD patients and their respective first degree relatives manifested a greater incidence of affective spectrum disorders.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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