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Family and genetic studies on the relationship of schizophrenia to affective disorders.
European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience - 1 Jan 1999
Maier W, Rietschel M, Lichtermann D, Wildenauer D B
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a genetically influenced disease with a broad and heterogeneous phenotype transmitted in families. Of particular interest is the familial-genetic relationship between schizophrenia and affective disorders. Taking advantage of refined epidemiological methods, the dichotomy between both groups of disorders is not less consistently found than expected. Recently, linkage studies identified multiple...
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