Re:Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dra...
by antillean on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:23AM
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Do you know what the estimate is for the proportion of monozygotic twins that are discordant for schizophrenia?
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Re:Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dra...
by tokenadult on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:42PM
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I don't know that off-hand, but the book I cited may provide enough of the raw data to suggest a magnitude. By memory, I venture to say that more than 10 percent of monozygotic twins of schizophrenia cases (probands) do not have a schizophrenia diagnosis of their own--but I'll revise this figure if someone can find a good reference. What's clear in general about the research is that schizophrenia is a polygenic condition (influenced by many genes) and multifactorial (also influenced by factors other than genes).