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Morbid risk of schizophrenia in first-degree relatives of white and African-Caribbean patients with psychosis.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Dec 1996
Hutchinson G, Takei N, Fahy T A, Bhugra D, Gilvarry C, Moran P, Mallett R, Sham P, Leff J, Murray R M
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BACKGROUND: The high rate of schizophrenia among the second-generation African-Caribbean population in Britain has prompted much concern and speculation. Sugarman and Craufurd have reported that the morbid risk in the siblings of second-generation African-Caribbean schizophrenic patients was unusually high compared with that of the siblings of White patients. METHOD: We sought to replicate these findings by...
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