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| K N JavarasSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Comorbidity of fibromyalgia and psychiatric disordersLesley M Arnold
Women s Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 67:1219-25. 2006..To assess the co-occurrence of fibromyalgia with psychiatric disorders in participants of a fibromyalgia family study...
Familiality and heritability of binge eating disorder: results of a case-control family study and a twin studyKristin N Javaras
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Eat Disord 41:174-9. 2008..To estimate the familiality and heritability of binge eating disorder (BED)...
Conscientiousness predicts greater recovery from negative emotionKristin N Javaras
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, USA
Emotion 12:875-81. 2012..In addition, the effect was specific to negative emotional stimuli and did not hold for neutral or positive emotional stimuli...
Co-occurrence of binge eating disorder with psychiatric and medical disordersKristin N Javaras
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:266-73. 2008..We used data from that type of study to assess the co-occurrence of various psychiatric and medical disorders with DSM-IV BED and with subthreshold BED...
Estimating disease prevalence using relatives of case and control probandsKristin N Javaras
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Biometrics 66:214-21. 2010..Finally, we discuss the assumptions required for our estimators to be approximately unbiased, highlighting situations where an alternative estimator based only on relatives of control probands may perform better...
Fitting ACE structural equation models to case-control family dataK N Javaras
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Genet Epidemiol 34:238-45. 2010..Further, when our approach is used to fit the ACE model to Austrian case-control family data on depression, the resulting estimate of heritability is very similar to those from previous analyses of twin data...
Estimating the effect of a predictor measured by two informants on a continuous outcome: a comparison of methodsKristin N Javaras
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Epidemiology 22:390-9. 2011..The results of the simulations and the example suggest that the simple average is a reasonable choice when there are only 2 informants...
Season of birth and disordered eating in a population-based sample of young U.S. femalesKristin N Javaras
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:630-8. 2011..s...
A structural approach to the familial coaggregation of disordersJames I Hudson
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Epidemiology 19:431-9. 2008..For illustration, we applied our method to a family study of binge eating disorder and bipolar disorder...
