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Twin study of illness history variables in psychosis.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Dec 2009
Allan Charlotte L, Cardno Alastair G, Rijsdijk Frühling V, Kalidindi Sridevi, Farmer Anne, Murray Robin M, McGuffin Peter
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genetic factors are important in the aetiology of psychotic disorders, but it is unclear how far they influence aspects of illness history within psychoses. AIMS: To investigate the extent, and type of familial aggregation for a range of illness history variables in psychosis. METHODS: Two-hundred-and-twenty-four proband-wise twin pairs (106 monozygotic, 118 same-sex dizygotic), where probands had...
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