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Schizophrenia: the polygene princess and the pea

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2008

D. A. Collier
D. A. Collier*
Affiliation:
Division of Psychological Medicine and Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
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*Address for correspondence: Professor D. A. Collier, Ph.D., P82, SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK. (Email: d.collier@iop.kcl.ac.uk)
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Keywords

CNVscomplex disordersepigeneticsgene–environmentGWApsychosis
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Commentary
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2008 , pp. 1687 - 1691
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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