Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 5 , Pages 447-453, May 2010

Latent class analysis of functional somatic symptoms in a population-based sample of twins☆

  • Kenji Kato

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, International University of Health and Welfare, Odawara, Japan
    • Department of Health Promotion Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Health Promotion Science (c/o Prof Kazuo Hayakawa), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 1-7 Yamada-Oka, Suita 565-0871 Japan.
    • ,
  • Patrick F. Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • ,
  • Nancy L. Pedersen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Received 2 December 2009; received in revised form 12 January 2010; accepted 12 January 2010. published online 02 March 2010.

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☆ This work was supported by NS-041483 (NLP), CA-085739 (PFS), and AI-056014 (PFS). The Swedish Twin Registry is supported by grants from the Swedish Department of Higher Education, the Swedish Scientific Council, and an unrestricted grant from AstraZeneca.

PII: S0022-3999(10)00015-2

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.010

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 5 , Pages 447-453, May 2010

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