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Paternal age and schizophrenia: further support for an association.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Sept 2002
Dalman Christina, Allebeck Peter
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OBJECTIVE: Advanced paternal age has been proposed as a risk factor for later development of schizophrenia in offspring, although studies are not conclusive. De novo mutations arising in paternal germ cells have been suggested as the underlying mechanism. METHOD: The hypothesized association was investigated in a population-based case-control study comprising 524 subjects with schizophrenia and 1,043 matched...
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