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Schizophrenia and genetics: new insights.
Current psychiatry reports - 1 Aug 2002
Bassett Anne S, Chow Eva W, Weksberg Rosanna, Brzustowicz Linda
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There is consistent evidence that the principal etiology of schizophrenia involves predisposing genetic factors. Recent years have seen several new insights in the genetics of schizophrenia. Several chromosomal regions show significant evidence that they contain schizophrenia susceptibility genes. A clinically relevant genetic subtype of schizophrenia (22q deletion syndrome) has been identified. There is new...
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