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Is there a familial overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder?
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Dec 2002
Somnath C P, Janardhan Reddy Y C, Jain S
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BACKGROUND: Most investigators accept that schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are distinct entities. The proponents of continuum model have challenged this dichotomy model. METHODS: Information about the first-degree relatives of probands with DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia (n=90), bipolar disorder (n=90), and epilepsy (n=60) was collected by using the Family Interview for Genetic Studies (FIGS). A trained...
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