Familial Resemblance of Borderline Personality Disorder Features: Genetic or Cultural Transmission?
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Familial Resemblance of Borderline Personality Disorder Features: Genetic or Cultural Transmission?
Borderline personality disorder is a severe personality disorder for which genetic research has been limited to family studies and classical twin studies. These studies indicate that genetic effects explain 35 to 45% of the variance in borderline personality disorder and borderline personality features. However, effects of non-additive (dominance) genetic factors, non-random mating and cultural...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005334