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Velocardiofacial manifestations and microdeletions in schizophrenic inpatients.
American journal of medical genetics - 12 Nov 1997
Gothelf D, Frisch A, Munitz H, Rockah R, Aviram A, Mozes T, Birger M, Weizman A, Frydman M
Abstract excerpt
Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) is associated with an increased frequency of schizophrenia and other types of psychiatric morbidity. In this study, we tried to identify a subgroup of schizophrenic patients with deletions in the VCFS region of the long arm of chromosome 22. For that purpose, we screened the records of two major general hospitals for patients with abnormalities characteristic of VCFS, such as...
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