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Finnish adoptive family study: sample selection and adoptee DSM-III-R diagnoses.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 1 Jun 2000
Tienari P, Wynne L C, Moring J, Läksy K, Nieminen P, Sorri A, Lahti I, Wahlberg K E, Naarala M, Kurki-Suonio K, Saarento O, Koistinen P, Tarvainen T, Hakko H, Miettunen J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the genetic contribution to schizophrenia using an adoption design that disentangles genetic and environmental factors. METHOD: Finnish hospital diagnoses of schizophrenic/paranoid psychosis in a nationwide sample of adopting-away women are compared with DSM-III-R research diagnoses for these mothers. DSM-III-R diagnoses of their index offspring are blindly compared with adopted-away...
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