Contributions of Genetic Risk and Fetal Hypoxia to Hippocampal Volume in Patients With Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder, Their Unaffected Siblings, and Healthy Unrelated Volunteers
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 30 August 2002
Theo G.M. van Erp, Peter A. Saleh, Isabelle M. Rosso, Matti Huttunen, Jouko Lönnqvist, Tiia Pirkola
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In patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, hippocampal volume is influenced in part by schizophrenia susceptibility genes and an interaction of these genes with fetal hypoxia, and it is suggested that hippocampusal volume in schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder may be linked to time of disease onset.
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These findings suggest that in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, hippocampal volume is influenced in part by schizophrenia susceptibility genes and an interaction of these genes with fetal hypoxia. They further suggest that hippocampal volume in schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder may be linked to time of disease onset.
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