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Monday, June 1, 2009

Environmental Adversity and Increasing Genetic Risk for Externalizing Disorders
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(6):640-648.

In the context of environmental adversity, genetic factors become more important in the etiology of externalizing disorders. The consistency of the results further suggests a general mechanism of environmental influence on externalizing disorders regardless of the specific form of the environmental risk.



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