Family History and Birthweight in Monozygotic Twins Concordant and Discordant for Psychosis
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research
- Vol. 36 (2) , 267-273
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001566000004505
Abstract
In a sample of monozygotic twins, intrapair differences in reported birthweight were larger in those pairs discordant for later psychosis, compared to pairs concordant for psychosis. A trend towards less family history of psychiatric disorder was also found in the discordant pairs.Keywords
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