Familial schizophrenia with pericentric inversion of chromosome 9: a case report.

doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00031-0

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Familial schizophrenia with pericentric inversion of chromosome 9: a case report.

Schizophrenia research - 27 Jul 1998

Lee K B, Kunugi H, Nanko S

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We report a case with schizophrenia who had a pericentric inversion of chromosome 9 (inv. 9) and whose mother has the same illness and karyotype. Although inv. 9 has been considered to be a common chromosomal rearrangement without specific phenotype, recent evidence has shown that there are sever...

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Adult
Chromosome Inversion
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
Humans
Male
Phenotype
Schizophrenia

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