Seminars in Psychiatric Genetics
1994; BMJ; Volume: 309; Issue: 6957 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.309.6957.818a
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
ResumoPeter McGuffin, Michael J Owen, Michael C O'Donovan, Anita Thapar, Irving I Gottesman Gaskell/Royal College of Psychiatrists, £10, pp 230 ISBN 0-902241-65-6 During most of its history psychiatric genetics has focused on family, twin, and adoption studies and on statistical models aimed at resolving major gene effects or other transmission patterns. These studies strongly support the role of heredity in some psychiatric disorders - notably schizophrenia and manic depression - but the mode of genetic transmission remains unknown. With the advent of molecular genetic techniques the subject has gained in vigour …
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