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Thought disorder in schizophrenic and control adoptees and their relatives.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 May 1997
Kinney D K, Holzman P S, Jacobsen B, Jansson L, Faber B, Hildebrand W, Kasell E, Zimbalist M E
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BACKGROUND: Previous research showed significantly elevated levels of thought disorder in the relatives of persons with schizophrenia, as well as in the persons with schizophrenia themselves. Comparisons of schizophrenic and control adoptees and their respective relatives provide a method for minimizing the confounding of genetic and environmental sources of familial resemblance and for elucidating whether the...
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