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Genetic risk of neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia: a study of monozygotic twins discordant and concordant for the disorder.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Sept 1995
Goldberg T E, Torrey E F, Gold J M, Bigelow L B, Ragland R D, Taylor E, Weinberger D R
Abstract excerpt
We used a paradigm involving monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia (n = 20) and concordant for schizophrenia (n = 8), as well as normal MZ twin pairs (n = 7) in order to study cognitive measures of genetic risk in schizophrenia. A comparison between the unaffected twins from the discordant sample and the normal twins indicated subtle attenuations in some aspects of memory and executive...
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