Education on Genetics for Psychiatric Residents
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Reflections on the relationship between psychiatric genetics and psychiatric nosology.
Research advances in psychiatric genetics have raised expectations that genetic findings might lead to major breakthroughs in psychiatric nosology. The author reviews the plausibility of these claims. Four areas are addressed. First, it is argued that familial aggregation of a single putative psychiatric syndrome provides at best limited evidence for the validity of that syndrome. Second, both ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1042-9670
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.34.2.85