2022
A Family Study of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Pauls D, Raymond C, Stevenson J, Leckman J. A Family Study of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. 2022, 64-73. DOI: 10.4324/9780203822937-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchObsessive-compulsive disorderTourette syndromeChronic ticsTS probandsGilles deFirst-degree relativesRelatives of probandsRelatives of controlsFamilies of probandsBiological relativesMorbid riskNormal subjectsNormal probandsFamilial disorderSyndromeProbandsCompulsive disorderFamily studiesTotal sampleDisordersPresent studyFurther evidenceRelativesPrevious studiesControl samples
2017
A total-population multigenerational family clustering study of autoimmune diseases in obsessive–compulsive disorder and Tourette’s/chronic tic disorders
Mataix-Cols D, Frans E, Pérez-Vigil A, Kuja-Halkola R, Gromark C, Isomura K, Fernández de la Cruz L, Serlachius E, Leckman JF, Crowley JJ, Rück C, Almqvist C, Lichtenstein P, Larsson H. A total-population multigenerational family clustering study of autoimmune diseases in obsessive–compulsive disorder and Tourette’s/chronic tic disorders. Molecular Psychiatry 2017, 23: 1652-1658. PMID: 29133949, PMCID: PMC5951741, DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.215.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsObsessive-compulsive disorderAutoimmune diseasesChronic tic disorderIndividual autoimmune diseasesThird-degree relativesTic disordersRisk of ADsNational Patient RegisterPatterns of comorbidityFirst-degree relativesPatient RegisterPlacental transmissionNationwide studyBirth cohortCTD casesFamilial clusteringDisordersComorbiditiesPopulation controlsProbandsOCD probandsBiological relativesDiseaseFamilial linkRisk
2015
Obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in a population-based, cross-sectional sample of school-aged children
Alvarenga PG, Cesar RC, Leckman JF, Moriyama TS, Torres AR, Bloch MH, Coughlin CG, Hoexter MQ, Manfro GG, Polanczyk GV, Miguel EC, do Rosario MC. Obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in a population-based, cross-sectional sample of school-aged children. Journal Of Psychiatric Research 2015, 62: 108-114. PMID: 25702286, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.01.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSchool-aged childrenPsychiatric symptomsFamily History ScreenAdditional clinical factorsSymptom dimensionsCommunity-based sampleObsessive-compulsive symptom dimensionsClinical factorsObsessive-compulsive disorderPsychiatric comorbidityClinical impairmentSchool impairmentCross-sectional sampleAge 6Clinical samplesFamilial aggregationBiological mothersChildrenBiological relativesSymptomsPrevalenceAge distributionImpairmentNon-clinical samplePresent study
1991
A family study of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
Pauls DL, Raymond CL, Stevenson JM, Leckman JF. A family study of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. American Journal Of Human Genetics 1991, 48: 154-63. PMID: 1985456, PMCID: PMC1682764.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsObsessive-compulsive disorderTourette syndromeChronic ticsTS probandsGilles deFirst-degree relativesRelatives of probandsRelatives of controlsFamilies of probandsBiological relativesMorbid riskNormal subjectsNormal probandsFamilial disorderSyndromeProbandsCompulsive disorderFamily studiesTotal sampleDisordersPresent studyFurther evidenceRelativesPrevious studiesControl samples