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Psychoses in the Offspring of Schizophrenic Monozygotic Twins and their Normal Co-Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Margit Fischer
Margit Fischer*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Department, University of Aarhus, State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
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Extract

The difficulty of examining separately the genetic and environmental factors responsible for mental illness has resulted in different approaches to surmount this obstacle.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 542 , January 1971 , pp. 43 - 52
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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