Schizophrenia and Marfan Syndrome
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (3), 433-436
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.157.3.433
Abstract
Five index patients and three of their first-degree relatives were affected both by schizophrenia and Marfan syndrome. Since the association appears statistically significant, the possibility of linkage disequilibrium between adjacent genes or a cytogenetic abnormality causing both disorders is suggested. These hypotheses are testable and hold promise in attempting to map the ‘schizophrenia susceptibility gene’ by the candidate-gene approach.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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