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Confirmation of synergy between urbanicity and familial liability in the causation of psychosis.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 2004
van Os Jim, Pedersen Carsten B, Mortensen Preben B
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: This study replicated a previous report that there may be substantial synergism between urbanicity (a proxy environmental risk factor) and familial clustering of psychotic disorder (a proxy genetic risk factor). METHOD: The amount of synergism was estimated from the additive statistical interaction between urbanicity of place of birth and family history of schizophrenia or family history of any severe...
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