TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1982//
TI  - Schizophrenia and suicide in a north Swedish isolate, 1890-1980
JO  - Clinical genetics
A1  - Böök, J. A.
A1  - Modrzewska, K.
SP  - 280
EP  - 283
VL  - 22
IS  - 5
N2  - The epidemiological and genetic investigation of schizophrenic psychoses over the period 1900-1978 which has been carried out in a specified North Swedish geographical isolate was supplemented with a study of suicides. For the period 1890-1980, a total of 90 suicides have been ascertained. Of these, 54 had at least one schizophrenic relative at a maximum genetic distance of 1/8, while 11 had schizophrenic relatives further removed. It is likely that at least some of these suicides were manifestations of acute and/or undiagnosed psychoses. Thus the previously reported high general morbid risk of schizophrenia in this population (2.7%) would be a rather conservative estimate. On the other hand, the findings would not appreciably change the morbid risk for first-degree relatives of schizophrenic probands.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-9163
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -