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[Risk factors of schizophrenia].
Duodecim; laaketieteellinen aikakauskirja - 1 Jan 2010
Suvisaari Jaana
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a multifactorial, neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors. Disturbances of brain development begin prenatally, while different environmental insults further affect postnatal brain maturation during childhood and adolescence. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have succeeded in identifying hundreds of new risk variants for common,...
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