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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011 Jul;68(7):753–762. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.65

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Common pathway model in which genetic and environmental factors influence a single latent factor for liability to borderline personality disorder (BPD-ness) that accounts for the covariance among the 4 sectors. E indicatesunique environmental factor for BPD-ness; ES, unique environmental factor specific for a given sector; F, familial factor for BPD-ness; FS, familial factor specific for a given sector. Observed variables are in rectangles and latent variables are in circles.