Low, NCP;
Hardy, J;
(2007)
Psychiatric disorder criteria and their application to research in different racial groups.
BMC Psychiatry
, 7
, Article 1. 10.1186/1471-244X-7-1.
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Abstract
Background The advent of standardized classification and assessment of psychiatric disorders, and considerable joint efforts among many countries has led to the reporting of international rates of psychiatric disorders, and inevitably, their comparison between different racial groups. Results In neurologic diseases with defined genetic etiologies, the same genetic cause has different phenotypes in different racial groups. Conclusion We suggest that genetic differences between races mean that diagnostic criteria refined in one racial group, may not be directly and simply applicable to other racial groups and thus more effort needs to be expended on defining diseases in other groups. Cross-racial confounds (in addition to cultural confounds) make the interpretation of rates in different groups even more hazardous than seems to have been appreciated.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Psychiatric disorder criteria and their application to research in different racial groups |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-244X-7-1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-7-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2007 Low and Hardy; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PubMed ID: 17214899 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1357259 |
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