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Relative risk of attention deficits in siblings of patients with schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Aug 2000
Egan M F, Goldberg T E, Gscheidle T, Weirich M, Bigelow L B, Weinberger D R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Impaired attention has frequently been observed in studies of unaffected siblings of patients with schizophrenia. To assess the suitability of impaired attention for use as an intermediate phenotype in genetic studies, the authors estimated the relative risk of impaired attention in a large group of siblings. METHOD: The authors used the Continuous Performance Test, 1-9 version, with and without a...
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