A Single Dominant Gene Can Account for Eye Tracking Dysfunctions and Schizophrenia in Offspring of Discordant Twins

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 641-647

  Holzman, Philip S ^a,h   Kringlen, Einar ^b   Matthysse, Steven ^c,h   Flanagan, Steven D ^d   Lipton, Richard B ^e   Cramer, Gunnar ^f   Levin, Smadar ^c,h   Lange, Kenneth ^f   Levy, Deborah L ^g  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWINS;

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMAN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PROBABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0023894061     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800310049006     Document Type: Article

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