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Jul 10, 2012, 10:09 AM
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Finnish adoption study of schizophrenia: Implications for family interventions.
By Tienari, Pekka; Wahlberg, Karl-Erik; Wynne, Lyman C.
Families, Systems, & Health, Vol 24(4), 2006, 442-451.
Abstract
The authors have shown that disordered rearing in adoptive families predicted schizophrenia spectrum disorders in adoptees in a 21-year follow-up. However, only the adoptees at genetic high risk showed a significant association between the measure of adoptive family functioning and the adoptee's spectrum diagnosis, other mental disorders, and thought disorders. The same result was found when the subgroup of adoptees with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses at initial assessment was excluded. These findings indicate, in our view, that adoptees at genetic high risk are more sensitive than adoptees at genetic low risk to both adverse and protective environmental effects in their rearing environments. This adoption study of the schizophrenia spectrum supports the hypothesis of interaction between genotype and environment.
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http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=...2006-23216-008
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