Dinwiddie S H
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1994;22(3):327-42.
Research in psychiatric genetics has been revolutionized by the development of new and powerful molecular genetic techniques. Family, twin, and adoption studies of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and criminality are reviewed, and ramifications of new research methods for the study of antisocial behavior are considered. Implications of these developments for forensic psychiatry are discussed.
新的强大分子遗传学技术的发展彻底改变了精神疾病遗传学的研究。本文回顾了关于反社会人格障碍(ASPD)和犯罪行为的家族、双胞胎及收养研究,并探讨了研究反社会行为的新研究方法所带来的影响。同时还讨论了这些进展对法医精神病学的意义。