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II. Genotype‐Environment Interaction in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: Qualitative Observations
Author(s) -
WYNNE LYMAN C.,
TIENARI PEKKA,
SORRI ANNELI,
LAHTI ILPO,
MORING JUHA,
WAHLBERG KARLERIK
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00181.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , schizophrenia spectrum , psychology , developmental psychology , categorical variable , gene–environment interaction , broad spectrum , qualitative research , psychosis , genotype , liability , social relation , clinical psychology , psychiatry , genetics , social psychology , gene , biology , social science , chemistry , machine learning , sociology , computer science , combinatorial chemistry , finance , economics
Previous reports from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study of Schizophrenia have documented significant interplay between genetics (G) and family rearing (E), leading to adoptee outcomes of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Quantitative evidence for this interplay is significantly enhanced when both high genetic liability and severe environmental dysfunction are present. However, when either genetic liability is low or the rearing environment is healthy, the adoptees appear to be resiliently protected against a pathologic outcome. Nevertheless, exceptions to this pattern do occur. Six qualitative vignettes, together with quantitative measures and categorical diagnoses from the same families, illustrate how multiple methods partially confirm one another and also suggest where further exploration of gene‐environment interaction is needed.