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Schizophrenia and neural tube defects: comparisons from an epidemiological perspective.
Schizophrenia bulletin - 1 Jul 2007
Zammit Stanley, Lewis Sarah, Gunnell David, Smith George Davey
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In this review, we examine and compare epidemiological studies of schizophrenia and neural tube defects (NTDs). Although there is no apparent link between these 2 disparate disorders in terms of clinical manifestation or phenotypes, overlapping patterns in the variation of incidence of schizophrenia with that of NTDs indicate the existence of one or more shared etiological risk factors. Evidence in support of...
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