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Schizophrenia: genes and environment.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Feb 2000
Tsuang M
Abstract excerpt
The historical and genetic foundations of our current understanding of schizophrenia are reviewed, as are the present and future directions for research. Genetic epidemiological investigations, including family, twin, and adoption studies have confirmed the contributions of genetic and environmental determinants of schizophrenia. For example, identical twins show average concordance rates of only 50%; rates of...
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