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Twin study refining psychotic symptom dimensions as phenotypes for genetic research.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Oct 2008
Cardno Alastair G, Rijsdijk Frühling V, Murray Robin M, McGuffin Peter
Abstract excerpt
We investigated which psychotic symptom dimensions are likely to be most useful as phenotypes for genetic linkage and association studies. Two hundred twenty-four probandwise twin pairs (106 monozygotic,118 same-sex dizygotic), where probands had psychosis, were ascertained from the Maudsley Twin Register in London. Dimensions were defined as ordinal symptom scores using the OPCRIT checklist, based on previous...
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