The British Journal of Psychiatry 138: 236-239 (1981)
© 1981 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Genetic implications in assortative mating of affective disorders
F Negri, AM Melica, R Zuliani, M Gasperini, F Macciardi and E Smeraldi
Psychiatric disorders in a sample of spouses of probands with recurrent
Primary Affective Disorders (PAD) and in their first degree relatives were
evaluated and compared with those in the spouse of control subjects without
psychiatric illnesses. No differences were found in the risk for PAD, but
spouses of PAD patients and their respective first degree relatives
manifested a greater incidence of affective spectrum disorders.