Article
Gene-environment interaction in vulnerability to schizophrenia: findings from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study of Schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Mar 1997
Wahlberg K E, Wynne L C, Oja H, Keskitalo P, Pykäläinen L, Lahti I, Moring J, Naarala M, Sorri A, Seitamaa M, Läksy K, Kolassa J, Tienari P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the interaction of genetic risk and rearing-family risk as a subsyndromal test measure of schizophrenic thought disorder in adoptees. METHOD: A group of 58 adoptees with schizophrenic biological mothers was compared with 96 comparison adoptees at ordinary genetic ri...
Topics
- Adoption
- Adult
- Communication Disorders
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Odds Ratio
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Social Environment