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Late-Onset Folie Simultanée in a Pair of Monozygotic Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kenneth S. Kendler ,
Gillian Robinson ,
Mary McGuire  and
Mary P. Spellman
Kenneth S. Kendler*
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 710, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
Gillian Robinson
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Dublin, Ireland
Mary McGuire
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Castlerea, Ireland
Mary P. Spellman
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Castlerea, Ireland
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A case-report is presented of folie simultanée in a pair of female monozygotic twins with onset at the remarkable age of 81. The twins demonstrated no evidence of dementia or other psychopathology apart from delusions. Folie simultanée in monozygotic twins provides a model example of the potential role of genotype-environment correlation in the etiology of psychiatric illness.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 463 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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