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[Schizophrenia and birth seasonality--contrary results in relation to genetic risk].
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie - 1 Jan 1993
Franzek E, Beckmann H
Abstract excerpt
In 1299 DSM III-R schizophrenics a slight excess of winter and spring births was evident when compared to the general population. However, when patients were allocated to different diagnostic subgroups according to the Leonhard classification this remained true only for those forms without obvious genetic loading (cycloid psychoses and systematic schizophrenias). On the contrary those forms with high genetic...
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