The Investigations of Genetic Factors in Psychiatry
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The relation of genetics to psychiatry may be considered at many levels: molecular. biochemical, neurophysiological, pharmacological and demographic. Research in human behaviour genetics is mainly concentrated in two areas: inheritance of traits largely under the control of one or several genes.
Biochemical and chromosomal abnormalities are now known to cause some case of mental retardation. The studies of schizophrenia familial disorders should be under the genetic control.
Neurotic States have similar concordance rates for monozygotic and dizygotic twins. These data and pedigree studies suggest that environmental conditions may be more important than genetic influences in the aetiology of neuroses.
The author, also, discusses the results (psychiatric aspect) of “The prospective investigations of heredital disorders in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
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