Abstract

Despite evidence of heterogeneity across studies, these meta-analytic results from 12 published twin studies of schizophrenia are consistent with a view of schizophrenia as a complex trait that results from genetic and environmental etiological influences. These results are broadly informative in that they provide no information about the specific identity of these etiological influences, but they do provide a component of a unifying empirical basis supporting the rationality of searches for underlying genetic and common environmental etiological factors.

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Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Twin studyMeta-analysisHeritabilityTraitEtiologyPsychologyClinical psychologyConfidence intervalPsychiatryMedicineGeneticsBiologyInternal medicineComputer science

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2003
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review
Volume
60
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12
Pages
1187-1187
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Patrick F. Sullivan, Kenneth S. Kendler, Michael C. Neale (2003). Schizophrenia as a Complex Trait. Archives of General Psychiatry , 60 (12) , 1187-1187. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.60.12.1187

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10.1001/archpsyc.60.12.1187