Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 584-592 , November 2009

Latent class analysis of the Child Behavior Checklist Obsessive-Compulsive Scale

  • Robert R. Althoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families, University of Vermont, Box 364SJ3, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • David C. Rettew

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families, University of Vermont, Box 364SJ3, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
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  • Dorret I. Boomsma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • James J. Hudziak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families, University of Vermont, Box 364SJ3, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
    • Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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 This research was supported by grants NIMH MH58799, NWO 904-57-94, NWO 575-25-006, and the Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognition Research. A portion of this work was previously presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

 None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose with regard to the content of this manuscript.

PII: S0010-440X(09)00016-9

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.01.005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 584-592 , November 2009

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