Inheritance plays a major role in behavior as shown by selection and strain studies for
animal behavior and by twin and adoption studies for human behavior. Unlike simple …

There is a high prevalence of eye movement dysfunction (EMD) in persons with
schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives. Studies addressing the prevalence, stability …

Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological
anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist …

Haemophilia B is an X‐linked recessive coagulopathy due to mutations in the factor IX gene.
Occasionally, patients receiving factor IX replacement therapy develop inhibiting antibodies …

Recent developments in DNA-based techniques may revolutionize the study of human
behavioral genetics. However, unless these methods are used with great care, many of the …

This report summarizes research in epidemiology and related areas which addresses as yet
unresolved issues in schizophrenia. These include the nature of the disorder, environmental …

Recombinant inbred (RI) strains are useful in linkage analysis and gene mapping. The
currently available statistical tests of linkage using data derived from the study of RI strains …

This article describes the phenomenon of the social construction of alcoholism as a disease
in North America. The goal of this study is to explicate the persistence of the view of …

Some recent finding report that the area 5q11. 2–13.3 of chromosome 5 segregates with
schizophrenia in an uncle-nephew pair (Bassett et al 1988). However, linkage studies …

Medicine is becoming an increasingly molecular discipline, and in none of its specialities is
this change causing more of a stir than in psychiatry. This is because psychiatry has been …