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Evaluation of familial influences on the course and severity of schizophrenia among US and Indian cases.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology - 1 May 2004
Deshpande Smita N, Bhatia Triptish, Wood Joel, Brar Jaspreet S, Thelma B K, Ganguli Rohan, Day Richard, Gottesman Irving I, Nimgaonkar Vishwajit L
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BACKGROUND: Prior studies suggest familial (possibly genetic) influences on the course of schizophrenia. AIMS: The aim of this study was to compare familial influences on the course and severity of schizophrenia in two independent samples. METHOD: Thirteen selected measures were compared among affected sibling pairs (ASPs) from Pittsburgh, USA and New Delhi, India (48 US pairs, 53 Indian pairs). For each ASP...
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