Telomere length, family history, and paternal age in schizophrenia

Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 326-331

  Malaspina, Dolores ^a,b   Dracxler, Roberta ^a   Walsh Messinger, Julie ^a   Harlap, Susan ^a   Goetz, Raymond R ^a,c   Keefe, David ^a   Perrin, Mary C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Creedmoor Psychiatric Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Genetics; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922429157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23249269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.71     Document Type: Article

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