Fertility of the Sibs of Schizophrenic Patients
- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 127 (3) , 235-239
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.127.3.235
Abstract
Summary: This investigation has provided evidence against the hypothesis that heterozygous carriers of a schizophrenic gene have a reproductive advantage through enhanced fertility. An advantage arising from lower mortality between birth and the end of the reproductive period was not investigated, but should be examined before we search for other explanations of the apparently stable polymorphism of schizophrenia.Keywords
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