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Obstetric complications in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings.
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 Jan 2005
Walshe M, McDonald C, Taylor M, Zhao J, Sham P, Grech A, Schulze K, Bramon E, Murray R M
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OBJECTIVE: We sought to explore whether obstetric complications (OCs) are more likely to occur in the presence of familial/genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia or whether they themselves represent an independent environmental risk factor for schizophrenia. METHODS: The presence of OCs was assessed through maternal interview on 216 subjects, comprising 36 patients with schizophrenia from multiply affected...
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