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Evidence for a pseudo-autosomal locus for schizophrenia using the method of affected sibling pairs.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 May 1991
Collinge J, Delisi L E, Boccio A, Johnstone E C, Lane A, Larkin C, Leach M, Lofthouse R, Owen F, Poulter M
Abstract excerpt
A susceptibility locus for schizophrenia in the 'pseudo-autosomal' region has been proposed on the basis of the reported excess of sex-chromosome aneuploidies (e.g. XXY and XXX) among patients with schizophrenia and the finding that schizophrenic sib-pairs are more often of the same than of the opposite sex. This hypothesis has been tested in 83 sibships with two or more siblings fulfilling Research Diagnostic...
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