Diagnostic accuracy and linkage analysis: how useful are schizophrenia spectrum phenotypes?

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OBJECTIVE: Numerous studies suggest that the nonschizophrenic relatives of schizophrenic patients exhibit psychiatric and other features that discriminate them from normal comparison subjects. These features have been put forth as "spectrum" phenotypes that may be variant manifestations of the schizophrenia genotype. However, most of these studies do not address a key measurement question: does the diagnostic...

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