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Familial transmission of risk factors in the first-degree relatives of schizophrenic people.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Feb 2000
Waldo M C, Adler L E, Leonard S, Olincy A, Ross R G, Harris J G, Freedman R
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a complex illness with multiple pathophysiologic factors that contribute to its psychopathology. One strategy to identify these factors is to observe them in isolation from each other, by characterizing their expression in the relatives of schizophrenic probands. By Mendel's second law, each genetic factor should be independently distributed in a sibship, so that each can be observed by itself,...
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