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SUBMITTER: Pauls DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3181951 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 20100101 2
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 2% of the populations of children and adults. Family aggregation studies have demonstrated that OCD is familial, and results from twin studies demonstrate that the familiality is due in part to genetic factors. Only three genome-wide linkage studies have been completed to date, with suggestive but not definitive results. In addition, over 80 candidate gene studies have been published. Most of these s ...[more]