The Rôle of Genetics in Reducing the Incidence of Mental Disorders

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Tredgold, A.F. (1908.) In Royal Commission Report quoted by L. S. Penrose ( 1933) in Mental Defect. Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd. London.

Penrose, L.S. (1963.) The Biology of Mental Defect . Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., London .

Osborn, F. and Bajema, C.J. (1972.) The Eugenic Hypothesis. Social Biology. University of Chicago Press. 19, 337.

Higgins, J.V. , Reed, E.W. and Reed, S.C. (1962.) Intelligence and family size: a paradox resolved. Eugen. Quart. , 9, 84.

Slater, E. and Cowie, V. (1971). The Genetics of Mental Disorders. Oxford University Press, London.

Carter, C.O. , David, P.A. and Laurence, K.M. (1968.) A family study of major central nervous system malformations in South Wales. J. med. Genet., 5, 81.

Carter, C.O. and Roberts, J.A.F. (1967.) The risk of recurrence after two children with central-nervous-system malformations . Lancet, i, 306.

Lejeune, J. , Gautier, M. and Turpin, R. (1959.) Etude des chromosomes somatiques de neuf enfants mongoliens. C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 248, 1721.

Griffith, G. Wynne. (1973.) The 'prevention' of Down's syndrome (mongolism). Health Trends, 5, 59.

10.

Edwards, J.H. (1972.) Fetal diagnosis of genetic disease. Brit. J. Hosp. Med., 7, 645.