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Genetics in Relation to Mental Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Franz J. Kallmann
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Despite the precarious vulnerability of genetic theories to partisan distortion and abuse, a report on the progress of genetics in relation to mental disorders merits introduction on a fairly optimistic keynote. It seems that in quest of a better understanding of human behaviour deviations we have finally arrived at the threshold of the age of biology as a focal discipline. There are many indications that in searching for adequate methods of biological analysis, one of the key positions of science is held by human genetics.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 395 , April 1948 , pp. 250 - 257
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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