Elsevier, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5(50), p. 451-459.e1, 2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.015
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Links between maternal and offspring depression symptoms could arise from inherited factors, direct environmental exposure, or shared adversity. A novel genetically sensitive design was used to test the extent of environmental links between maternal depression symptoms and child depression/anxiety symptoms, accounting for inherited effects, shared adversity, and child age and gender.