A test of the equal-environment assumption in twin studies of psychiatric illness

1993/01/01 by Kenneth S. Kendler, Michael C. Neale, Ronald C. Kessler +2 · 408 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Anxiety #Biology #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Depression (economics) #Dizygotic twin #Dizygotic twins #Genetics #Health psychology #Heritability #Medicine #Mental Health Research Topics #Monozygotic twin #Psychiatry #Psychology #Public health #Trait #Twin study #Zygosity

paper · open access · doi:10.1007/bf01067551

published in Behavior Genetics 23(1), 21-27 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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• Overview: a current perspective on twin studies of schizophrenia

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