Psychiatric Genetic Counseling

Debby Tsuang, M.D., M.Sc,
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center,
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle Division Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Washington School of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health,
University of Washington

Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D.,
Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics,
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Brockton-West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit,
Psychiatry Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital

and

Ming T. Tsuang, MD, Ph.D., D.Sc.,FRCPsych.
Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics,
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Brockton-West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard School of Public Health

Correspondence:
Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D.,
Harvard Dept. of Psychiatry,
Massachusetts Mental Health Center,
74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115;
(voice: 617-734-6546; fax: 617-734-7915)

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published 2000