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Risk for cancer in parents of patients with schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 May 2004
Dalton Susanne Oksbjerg, Laursen Thomas Munk, Mellemkjaer Lene, Johansen Christoffer, Mortensen Preben Bo
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OBJECTIVE: This study attempted to determine whether a genetic protection against cancer might be manifest in parents of offspring with schizophrenia. METHOD: Using data from the Danish Central Population Registry, the authors identified 1,999,072 parents of offspring born after 1935. By linking this nationwide population-based parent cohort to the Danish Psychiatric Central Register, they identified 19,856...
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