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Schizophrenia: complex genetics, not fairy tales

A commentary on ‘The emperors of the schizophrenia polygene have no clothes’ by Crow (2008)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

M. C. O'Donovan ,
N. Craddock  and
M. J. Owen
M. C. O'Donovan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
N. Craddock*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
M. J. Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr N. Craddock, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK. (Email: craddockn@cardiff.ac.uk)
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Keywords

Association studygeneticsphenotypepsychosisschizophrenia
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2008 , pp. 1697 - 1699
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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