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Childhood-onset schizophrenia is proposed to be associated with increased genetic loading compared with adult-onset schizophrenia because of its earlier age of onset and generally greater severity of symptoms. Diminished suppression of P50 auditory evoked responses to repeated stimuli and elevated anticipatory saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements are markers of genetic risk that are found in members of families with schizophrenia even in the absence of the full clinical disorder and appear to be transmitted in a single gene autosomal dominant fashion. Adult-onset schizophrenia is generally associated with one parent who demonstrates abnormal P50 sensory gating and elevated anticipatory saccades and one parent who is normal on the physiologic measures (i.e., unilineal inheritance). This study investigates whether childhood-onset schizophrenia is similarly unilineal or is associated with the inheritance of genetic risk factors from both parents (i.e., bilineal inheritance). Ten childhood-onset schizophrenic probands and their parents were studied. Their P50 sensory gating and anticipatory saccades were compared with adult-onset schizophrenic probands and their parents. Bilineality, measured as physiological impairment in both parents, occurred more frequently in childhood-onset probands than in adultonset probands for both P50 sensory gating deficits (60% versus 13%) and elevated anticipatory saccades (60 versus 0%). Additionally, childhood-onset schizophrenic probands performed more poorly than adultonset probands on the anticipatory saccade measure. This physiological evidence suggests that childhood-onset schizophrenia may be associated with increased genetic loading because of contributions of genetic risk from both parents. Am. J. Med. Genet. (Neuropsychiatr. Genet.) 88:188-199, 1999.
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