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Unsound Methodology in Investigating a Pseudoautosomal Locus in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Curtis  and
Hugh Gurling
David Curtis*
Affiliation:
University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Wolfson Building, Middlesex Hospital, Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA
Hugh Gurling
Affiliation:
University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Wolfson Building, Middlesex Hospital, Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA
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∗Correspondence
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We have reservations about accepting the conclusions made by Crow et al (1989), namely that there is evidence that susceptibility to schizophrenia may be transmitted by a pseudoautosomal locus. In our view the methodology of the study is unsound. Additionally the data presented by the authors, when analysed correctly, do not support their hypothesis.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 415 - 416
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

References

Crow, T. J., DeLisi, L. E. & Johnstone, E. C. (1989) Concordance by sex in sibling pairs with schizophrenia is paternally inherited –Evidence for a pseudoautosomal locus. British Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 92–97.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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