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Do you know what the estimate is for the proportion of monozygotic twins that are discordant for schizophrenia?
by antillean 11y ago
Do you know what the estimate is for the proportion of monozygotic twins that are discordant for schizophrenia?
- tokenadult 11y agoI 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).