Journal article
The Heritability of Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder: A Family Study
Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.45(4), pp.323-327
04/01/1988
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800280033005
PMID: 3355319
Abstract
• Ninety-one consecutively admitted patients with schizophrenia (n=21), schizoaffective depression (n=43), or psychotic depression (n =27) entered a blind family study along with 36 never-ill controls. Though schizophrenia spectrum disorders clustered within families, they were not significantly more prevalent in the families of schizophrenic probands. In contrast, morbid risks for affective disorder clearly separated the families of psychotically depressed probands from the families of both schizophrenics and controls. Family study data for schizoaffective probands indicated links to both affective disorder and schizophrenia and suggested, as well, that a small number of patients with schizoaffective disorder may carry a genetic liability to both conditions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Heritability of Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder: A Family Study
- Creators
- William CoryellMark Zimmerman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.45(4), pp.323-327
- DOI
- 10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800280033005
- PMID
- 3355319
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Gen Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0003-990X
- eISSN
- 1538-3636
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/1988
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984004192702771
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