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Obsessive Compulsive disorder

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
OCD can run in families, and seems to be genetically related to tic disorders and Tourette syndrome. 

Prenatal diagnosis
None.

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Medical text written July 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved July 2005 by Dr I Heyman, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

 

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