September 2015

Legacy of mental Illness: A family with unusual genetic penetration

Mental illnesses are multifactorial disorders caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the roles of genetic and environmental factors depend on each other.  The aim of the report is to share the presentation of different psychiatric illnesses in generations of a family. A 31 year old male, unmarried, studied up to class eight, unemployed, muslim, non...

Author(s): S.M. Yasir Arafat, Afsana Karim and Shahida Choudhury