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Social risk or genetic liability for psychosis? A study of children born in Sweden and reared by adoptive parents.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Oct 2010
Wicks Susanne, Hjern Anders, Dalman Christina
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OBJECTIVE: Recent studies suggest a role for social factors during childhood in the later development of schizophrenia. Since social conditions in childhood are closely related to parental psychiatric illness, there is a need to disentangle how genes and social environmental factors interact. METHOD: A total of 13,163 children born in Sweden between 1955 and 1984 and reared in Swedish adoptive families were...
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