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Armand W. Loranger, PhD; John M. Oldham, MD; Elaine H. Tulis, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1982;39(7):795-799.

Abstract
• A comparison was made of the types of mental disorders occurring in the first-degree relatives of 83 female patients with DSM-III borderline personality disorder, 100 female patients with DSM-III schizophrenia, and 100 female patients with DSM-III bipolar disorder. Diagnosis of the relatives was made independently by two clinicians who were blind to the diagnosis of the probands. The relative of a borderline patient was about ten times more likely to have been treated for a borderline or borderlinelike personality disorder than was the relative of a schizophrenic or bipolar patient. The borderline patients' relatives were also treated for more unipolar depression than the schizophrenics' relatives. However, the relatives of the borderline patients did not have a higher morbid risk for treated mania or schizophrenia than that usually reported for the population at large.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, and The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 25, 1982.

Reprint requests to The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605 (Dr Loranger).

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