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Birth Order and Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. L. Granville-Grossman
K. L. Granville-Grossman*
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Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Herts
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Characteristics which are wholly genetically determined are distributed at random among all the members of a sibship. Dependence of the distribution on birth rank (i.e. maternal parity at the birth of the subjects) or on position within the sibship provides presumptive evidence of non-genetic causes and may give some indication of their nature (McKeown and Record, 1956). Investigations on the birth order of schizophrenics (Tables VI and VII) have to date given no clear and consistent results, and further study appears to be indicated.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 492 , November 1966 , pp. 1119 - 1126
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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