This editorial focuses on discordant twins as a valuable epidemiological design for psychiatric aetiological research. First, we summarise the advantages and strengths of this design over the classical matched case-control study. Then, we draw attention to the use of this method in bipolar disorder, revising previous discordant-twin studies. A future greater use of discordant twins is desirable to gain further relevant insights in the aetiology of bipolar disorder.

Discordant twins as a tool to unravel the aetiology of bipolar disorder / C. Fagnani, M. Bellani, J.C. Soares, M.A. Stazi, P. Brambilla. - In: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCES. - ISSN 2045-7960. - 23:2(2014), pp. 137-140.

Discordant twins as a tool to unravel the aetiology of bipolar disorder

P. Brambilla
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2014

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This editorial focuses on discordant twins as a valuable epidemiological design for psychiatric aetiological research. First, we summarise the advantages and strengths of this design over the classical matched case-control study. Then, we draw attention to the use of this method in bipolar disorder, revising previous discordant-twin studies. A future greater use of discordant twins is desirable to gain further relevant insights in the aetiology of bipolar disorder.
aetiology; bipolar disorder; discordant; twins
Settore MED/25 - Psichiatria
2014
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