Open AccessFamilial aggregation of mood disorders among relatives of schizophrenia probands admitted in a hospital in South-Eastern Nigeria: A family comparative study
Author(s) -
Justus Uchenna Onu,
JudeUzoma Ohaeri
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nigerian postgraduate medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 1117-1936
DOI - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_190_17
Subject(s) - proband , medicine , mood disorders , first degree relatives , mood , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , family aggregation , family history , confidence interval , epidemiology , bipolar disorder , disease , anxiety , genetics , mutation , gene , biology
The debate on the current nosological status of schizophrenia and mood disorders as distinct entities is very active among scholars. There is a paucity of genetic epidemiological data to contribute an African perspective to this debate.
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