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Strong family history and early onset of schizophrenia: about 2 families in Northern Nigeria
- Source :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 24, Iss 282 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016.
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Abstract
- Schizophrenia is a highly heritable psychotic disorder and high genetic loading is associated with early onset of the disease. The outcome of schizophrenia has also been linked with the age of onset as well as the presence of family history of the disease. Therefore families with patients with early onset Schizophrenia are subpopulations for genetic studies. We present 2 families with heavy genetic loading who have adolescents with schizophrenia.
- Subjects :
- schizophrenia
genetic loading
age of onset
outcome
Medicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English, French
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 282
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- The Pan African Medical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.f2f3bbee64a645a5bbcef1a29c9a6116
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.282.7568