Consanguinity and increased risk for schizophrenia in Egypt

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 108-112

  Mansour, Hader ^a,b   Fathi, Warda ^b   Klei, Lambertus ^a   Wood, Joel ^a   Chowdari, Kodavali ^a   Watson, Annie ^a   Eissa, Ahmed ^b   Elassy, Mai ^b   Ali, Ibtihal ^b   Salah, Hala ^b   Yassin, Amal ^b   Tobar, Salwa ^b   El Boraie, Hala ^b   Gaafar, Hanan ^b   Ibrahim, Nahed E ^a   Kandil, Kareem ^a   El Bahaei, Wafaa ^b   El Boraie, Osama ^b   Alatrouny, Mohamed ^b   El Chennawi, Farha ^b   Devlin, Bernie ^a,c   Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit L ^a,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Consanguinity; DNA; Genetic; Inbreeding; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EGYPT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK; SELF DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSANGUINITY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

EID: 77954144873     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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