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A twin study of genetic relationships between psychotic symptoms.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Apr 2002
Cardno Alastair G, Rijsdijk Frühling V, Sham Pak C, Murray Robin M, McGuffin Peter
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Biometrical model fitting was applied to clinical data from twins to investigate whether operationally defined schizophrenic, schizoaffective, and manic syndromes share genetic risk factors. METHOD: Seventy-seven monozygotic and 89 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs in which the proband met the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for lifetime-ever schizophrenic, schizoaffective, or manic syndrome were...
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