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Preventive intervention for early psychosis in adolescents--the Palau Youth at Risk Project.
Pacific health dialog - 1 Mar 2005
Ngiralmau Hilda, Blailes Francisca, Myles-Worsley Marina, Ord Lisa M
Abstract excerpt
We have studied a total of 393 adolescents 14 to 19 years from Palau, where the lifetime morbid risk for broadly defined schizophrenia is 2.67% and cases cluster in large extended families. These Palauan adolescents included 52 offspring of a schizophrenic parent designated as "Genetically Highest Risk" or GHR+ and 61 nieces/nephews of affected sib-pairs/trios, designated "Genetically High Risk" or GHR. The...
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