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Genes, germs, and schizophrenia: an evolutionary perspective.

Perspectives in biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2003

Ledgerwood Levi G, Ewald Paul W, Cochran Gregory M

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Literature on schizophrenia and other mental illnesses has emphasized the compatibility of evidence with genetic causation without adequately considering alternative hypotheses of disease causation. Although some studies from the mid-20th century reported associations between certain pathogens and schizophrenia, only recently has the possibility of infectious causation of schizophrenia again become an active...

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PMID: 12878806
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2003.0038

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