TY - JOUR
T1 - High mental disorder rates are based on invalid measures
T2 - Questions about the claimed ubiquity of mutation-induced dysfunction
AU - Wakefield, Jerome C.
PY - 2006/8
Y1 - 2006/8
N2 - Three reservations about Keller & Miller's (K&M's) argument are explored: Serious validity problems afflict epidemiological criteria discriminating disorders from non-disorders, so high rates may be misleading. Normal variation need not be mild disorder, contrary to a possible interpretation of K&M's article. And, rather than mutation-selection balance, true disorders may result from unselected combinations of normal variants over many loci.
AB - Three reservations about Keller & Miller's (K&M's) argument are explored: Serious validity problems afflict epidemiological criteria discriminating disorders from non-disorders, so high rates may be misleading. Normal variation need not be mild disorder, contrary to a possible interpretation of K&M's article. And, rather than mutation-selection balance, true disorders may result from unselected combinations of normal variants over many loci.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X06429095
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X06429095
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33845543097
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 29
SP - 424
EP - 426
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 4
ER -