You are like a mirror reflection of your mother" and "Considering how handsome your father is, I can see where you got your looks from," we more often than not come across these phrases. While its a known fact that genetics play a role in this connection, a recent study has shown that heredity also has a say in this, and it's quite a significant one. A new study has shown that the depressive symptoms and various other characteristic traits found in a woman is most likely passed on to from her mother

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However, Hoeft has stressed although the study does throw light on intergenerational transmission patterns, in no way does it strike off other responsible factors for depression like prenatal, postnatal or genetic, or some rare combinations of the three.

Now, Hoeft and her team intends to utilize this new design to analyze the MRI scans of parents and their offspring among families that had used various forms of in-vitro fertilization. She also plans to use it on other mentally disordered people like those having autism to spot the connection between parent-child pairing in that.