Family-based clusters of cognitive test performance in familial schizophrenia
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Family-based clusters of cognitive test performance in familial schizophrenia
BACKGROUND Cognitive traits derived from neuropsychological test data are considered to be potential endophenotypes of schizophrenia. Previously, these traits have been found to form a valid basis for clustering samples of schizophrenia patients into homogeneous subgroups. We set out to identify such clusters, but apart from previous studies, we included both schizophrenia patients and family m...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-4-20