The role of epigenetics in the raised incidence rates of psychoses among migrant groups

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 564-

  Peedicayil, Jacob ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MIGRATION; PSYCHOSIS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LIFE EVENT; MINORITY GROUP; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MINORITY GROUPS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 65549083755     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.28     Document Type: Letter

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