With the rationale that a disease that presents with anticipation could be associated with expansion of trinucleotide repeats, we selected parent-offspring pairs of schizophrenia patients with earlier age at onset in the filial generation to measure the expansion of CAG repeats using the repeat expa
Neurobehavioral deficits in offspring of schizophrenic parents: Liability indicators and predictors of illness
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 23 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(200021)97:1<65::aid-ajmg9>3.0.co;2-v
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โฆ Synopsis
High-risk research in schizophrenia incorporates several different strategies for studying individuals who are defined by different criteria as being at risk for future development of schizophrenia. Variables from a wide range of domains have been included in these studies. Several reviews of high-risk research have attempted to cover the field broadly, whereas others have been more sharply focused on research subjects defined by specific criteria or on particular classes of variables. Among the review articles and collections of project reports on high-risk research in the past two decades are: Watt et al.
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