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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 9

Articles | March 01, 1971

Depressive Disease: Familial Psychiatric Illness

JOE DORZAB; MAX BAKER; REMI J. CADORET; GEORGE WINOKUR

Am J Psychiatry 1971;127:1128-1133.

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Chief Resident in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63110

Clinical Associate, Section on Psychiatry, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63110

Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63110

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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Data from families of 100 intensively studied patients with depressive disease (unipolar affective disorder) and a review of the literature suggest that genetic factors play a role in the etiology of depressive disease. It is also possible that this disease may in fact be a heterogeneous group of illnesses with different manifestations, for example, in males and females. The authors stress the need for further studies to test their hypothesis.

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