High Rates of Schizophrenia in Adults With Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome
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- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (10) , 940-945
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.940
Abstract
VELO-CARDIO-FACIAL syndrome (VCFS), also known as DiGeorge or Shprintzen syndrome, is associated with small interstitial deletions of chromosome 22q11 in 80% to 85% of individuals.1 It was first described by Shprintzen et al2 and has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 4000 births.3Keywords
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