Does the genotype for schizophrenia often remain unexpressed because of canalization and stochastic events during development?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 659-668

  Woolf, Charles M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CELL MIGRATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PENETRANCE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWINS;

BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HEAT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 0031008763     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329179700473X     Document Type: Review

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