Clinical characteristics of an Afrikaner founder population recruited for a schizophrenia genetic study

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1151, Issue , 2009, Pages 85-101

  Roos, Johannes Lodewikus ^a   Pretorius, Herman Walter ^a   Karayiorgou, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

22q11 deletion frequency; Afrikaner founder population; Age of onset of schizophrenia; Cannabis use; Childhood onset schizophrenia; Clinical characteristics; Early non psychotic deviant behavior; Genetic study; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 22Q; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

CANNABIS;

EID: 58149147459     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03453.x     Document Type: Review

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