Birth order and the severity of illness in schizophrenia.

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A proposed risk factor for schizophrenia is materno-foetal incompatibility. We tested the hypothesis that, in multiply affected families, later born children would exhibit a more severe form of schizophrenia than their older siblings. The effect of birth order on (1) severity of the worst ever episode of illness; (2) deterioration from premorbid level of functioning; (3) age of onset; (4) response to medication;...

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