Association between genetic and socioenvironmental risk for schizophrenia during upbringing in a UK longitudinal cohort.

CONCLUSION: Genetic risk is correlated with socioenvironmental risk for schizophrenia during upbringing, but the associations between socioenvironmental risk and adolescent psychotic experiences appear, at present, to exist above and beyond this gene-environment correlation.
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Source: Psychological Medicine - September 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Newbury JB, Arseneault L, Caspi A, Moffitt TE, Odgers CL, Belsky DW, Sugden K, Williams B, Ambler AP, Matthews T, Fisher HL Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research