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Correlation and familial aggregation of dimensions of psychosis in affected sibling pairs from China.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Oct 2008
Vassos Evangelos, Sham Pak C, Cai Guiqing, Deng Hong, Liu Xiehe, Sun Xueli, Zhao Jinghua, Murray Robin M, Collier David A, Li Tao
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BACKGROUND: A number of studies with conflicting results have examined the familiality of schizophrenia syndromes in Western populations. AIMS: The objective of this study was to determine, using clinical data from concordant sibling pairs, whether symptom dimensions and other clinical characteristics of schizophrenia show familial aggregation and are therefore potentially useful traits in genetic studies....
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