Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Duke-affiliated Author "Caspi, Avshalom"

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How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment

Moffitt, Terrie; Caspi, Avshalom; Polanczyk, G. (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

Background. Most information about the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders comes from retrospective surveys, but how much these surveys have undercounted due to recall failure is unknown. We compared results from a ...
A longitudinal study of epigenetic variation in twins

Caspi, Avshalom; Williams, Benjamin; Houts, Renate; Moffitt, Terrie (LANDES BIOSCIENCE, 2010)

DNA methylation is a key epigenetic mechanism involved in the developmental regulation of gene expression. Alterations in DNA methylation are established contributors to inter-individual phenotypic variation and have been ...