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Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies

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The Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) is a structured interview for psychiatric disorders designed by researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health, first published in 1991. Although most of the diagnoses were based on DSM-III-R criteria, the instrument was also able to generate diagnoses for certain disorders in other systems including DSM-IV, Research Diagnostic Criteria, ICD-10 and Feighner Criteria. This was possible because the instrument records symptoms in sufficient detail to allow different criteria to be applied.[1][2] The DIGS interview has gone through a number of revisions since being published. The latest version is DIGS 4.0/BP which was published in 2005. All DIGS versions are available to download from the NIMH Center for Collaborative Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders

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  1. ^ Faraone, S. V.; Blehar, M.; Pepple, J.; Moldin, S. O.; Norton, J.; Nurnberger, J. I.; Malaspina, D.; Kaufmann, C. A.; Reich, T.; Cloninger, C. R.; DePaulo, J. R. (March 1996). "Diagnostic accuracy and confusability analyses: an application to the Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies". Psychological Medicine. 26 (2): 401–410. doi:10.1017/s0033291700034796. ISSN 0033-2917. PMID 8685296. S2CID 10547518.
  2. ^ Nurnberger JI, Blehar MC, Kaufmann CA et al (1994).Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) Archives of General Psychiatry, vol. 51, pp. 849-59 PMID 7944874
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