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Citation

Disanto G, Morahan JM, Lacey MV, Deluca GC, Giovannoni G, Ebers GC, Ramagopalan SV. PLoS One 2012; 7(4): e34866.

Affiliation

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0034866

PMID

22496872

PMCID

PMC3319623

Abstract

There is general consensus that season of birth influences the risk of developing psychiatric conditions later in life. We aimed to investigate whether the risk of schizophrenia (SC), bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) is influenced by month of birth in England to a similar extent as other countries using the largest cohort of English patients collected to date (n=57,971). When cases were compared to the general English population (n=29,183,034) all diseases showed a seasonal distribution of births (SC p=2.48E-05; BAD p=0.019; RDD p=0.015). This data has implications for future strategies of disease prevention.


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