Prenatal underdevelopment and schizophrenia: A case report of monozygotic twins
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Prenatal development of monozygotic twins and concordance for schizophrenia.
While twin concordances for schizophrenia have been used to estimate heritability and to develop genetic models, concordances in subtypes of monozygotic (MZ) twins can also be used to investigate the influence of prenatal development in the etiology of mental illness. We used within-pair variability and mirroring of fingerprints to estimate retrospectively the placentation status of concordant ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1323-1316,1440-1819
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01116.x