Publications
Consanguinity and Increased Risk for Schizophrenia in Egypt
Country: Egypt
Classification: Mental Illness, Intellectual
Year of Publication: 2010
Study Type:
Quantitative Study
Sample Size:
432
The Research party:
1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
2. Department of Psychiatry, Mansoura University School of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt
3. Department of Clinical Pathology, Mansoura University School of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt
4. Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
Main Idea or Research Questions:
The main aim of this study was to show the elevated parental consanguinity rates among patients with schizophrenia (SZ) in Egypt.