Genetic Epidemiology, Translational Neurogenomics, Psychiatric Genetics and Statistical Genetics Laboratories investigate the pattern of disease in families, particularly identical and non-identical twins, to assess the relative importance of genes and environment in a variety of important health problems.
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3579496
TITLE
Symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression. Same genes, different environments?
ABSTRACT
While traditional multivariate statistical methods can describe patterns of psychiatric symptoms, they cannot provide insight into why certain symptoms tend to co-occur in a population. However, this can be achieved using recently developed methods of multivariate genetic analysis. Examining self-report symptoms in a clinically unselected twin sample (3798 pairs), traditional factor analysis indicates that symptoms of depression and anxiety tend to form separate symptom clusters. Multivariate genetic analysis shows that genes act largely in a nonspecific way to influence the overall level of psychiatric symptoms. No evidence could be found for genes that specifically affect symptoms of depression without also strongly influencing symptoms of anxiety. By contrast, the environment seems to have specific effects, ie, certain features of the environment strongly influence symptoms of anxiety while having little impact on symptoms of depression. These results, which are replicated across sexes, suggest that the separable anxiety and depression symptom clusters in the general population are largely the result of environmental factors.
DATE PUBLISHED
1987 May
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1987/05/01
medline 1987/05/01 00:01
entrez 1987/05/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Kendler KS Kendler K S KS
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Eaves LJ Eaves L J LJ
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 44
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Archives of general psychiatry
ISOABBREVIATION: Arch. Gen. Psychiatry
YEAR: 1987
MONTH: May
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0003-990X
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Arch Gen Psychiatry
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0003-990X
NLMUNIQUEID: 0372435
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AG04954 NIA NIH HHS United States
GM30250 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
GM32732 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Anxiety genetics
Depression genetics
Diseases in Twins genetics
Environment genetics
Factor Analysis, Statistical genetics
Female genetics
Genes genetics
Humans genetics
Male genetics
Models, Genetic genetics
Phenotype genetics
Sex Factors genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's