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Genetic epidemiological study of schizophrenia: reproduction behaviour
Author(s) -
Ritsner M.,
Sherina O.,
Ginath Y.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb03205.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , epidemiology , reproduction , psychology , psychiatry , biology , medicine , genetics
Data from the Tomsk Epidemiological Register and epidemiological family sample were used to study the relationship between schizophrenics’ reproductive behaviour (marital status and fertility rate), severity of ICD‐9 schizophrenia and risk of illness among relatives of probands. The results are interpreted in terms of multifactorial threshold and single monolocus models. Their importance for the interpretation of epidemiological data (a change of prevalence rate, cohort effect and clinical polymorphism) is discussed.