Reconciling 'the new epidemiology' with an evolutionary genetic basis for schizophrenia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-358

  Burns, Jonathan Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COGNITION; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 59249106912     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.09.046     Document Type: Article

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