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A Family Study of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Author(s) -
Gerald Nestadt,
Jack Samuels,
Mark Riddle,
O. Joseph Bienvenu,
KungYee Liang,
Michele C. LaBuda,
John T. Walkup,
Marco A. Grados,
Rudolf HoehnSaric
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.57.4.358
Subject(s) - proband , family aggregation , odds ratio , anxiety disorder , psychology , etiology , psychiatry , impulse control disorder , obsessive compulsive , age of onset , logistic regression , confidence interval , family history , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , anxiety , pathological , genetics , gene , mutation , biology
The causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are as yet unknown. Evidence of familial aggregation is one approach for investigating the role of genetics in the etiology of this condition. The current study was conducted to determine ifOCD is familial and to investigate possible familial subtypes.

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