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7844332

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-8
pubmed:abstractText
There is considerable evidence that psychiatric disorders aggregate in families, a phenomenon for which both genetic and nongenetic explanations have been proposed. However, since genetic and social inheritance usually co-occur, it is difficult to separate out their effects. In this paper, we argue that examining the rates of disorder among children of Holocaust survivors provides a special situation where genetic and nongenetic factors in familial transmission can be separated, and where specific nongenetic mechanisms can be tested. We specify competing hypotheses, and test their viability using data from an epidemiological study of psychiatric disorders conducted in Israel. We find no evidence of higher symptom scale scores or higher rates of current psychiatric disorders for the children of Holocaust survivors. However, they did have higher rates of past disorders.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0022-1465
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
385-402
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Nongenetic familial transmission of psychiatric disorders? Evidence from children of Holocaust survivors.
pubmed:affiliation
Columbia University, New York, New York 10032.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.