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A Study of Pairs of Sibs both Hospitalized for Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ming-Tso Tsuang
Ming-Tso Tsuang*
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5; Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (Formosa)
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The present study is concerned with what is inherited in mental disorder. Is it an unspecific tendency to mental disorder, is it specific symptoms or features such as age of onset, course or outcome, or is it psychiatric diagnosis?

The study of pairs of relatives with mental disorder is certainly the best approach to investigating the problem of what is inherited. Unfortunately there has been a paucity of studies primarily dealing with this particular problem.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 496 , March 1967 , pp. 283 - 300
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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