Nongenetic Pathologic Developments of Brain-Wave Patterns in Monozygotic Twins Discordant and Concordant for Schizophrenia

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 125 B, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Weisbrod, M ^a   Hill, H ^a   Sauer, H ^b   Niethammer, R ^a   Guggenbuhl S ^c   Hell, D ^c   Stassen, H H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Concordance; Discrimination; EEG; Schizophrenia; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNDROME; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

EID: 0942268964     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.20080     Document Type: Article

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