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Risk of schizophrenia in relation to parental origin and genome-wide divergence.
Psychological medicine - 1 Jul 2012
Pedersen C B, Demontis D, Pedersen M S, Agerbo E, Mortensen P B, Børglum A D, Hougaard D M, Hollegaard M V, Mors O, Cantor-Graae E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Second-generation immigrants have an increased risk of schizophrenia, a finding that still lacks a satisfactory explanation. Various operational definitions of second-generation immigrants have been used, including foreign parental country of birth. However, with increasing global migration, it is not clear that parental country of birth necessarily is informative with regard to ethnicity. We compare...
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