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Gottesman 1991
By Pooja, Jessica and Shohum
Aims
• To investigate the risk of developing schizophrenia in different types of genetic relatives of a schizophrenic.
Procedures
• Compiled data from 40 family studies from the best Western European studies reported over the past century.
Findings
Conclusions
• Risk for cousins (2%) is only slightly greater than the general population risk.
• Second-degree relatives have a risk of around 5%, while first-degree relatives have a risk close to 10%.
• With one schizophrenic parent the risk was 6% with two it rose to 46%.
• Monozygotic twins had a 48% concordance rate.• Dizygotic twins had a 17%.• Concordance rates in this study are not 100% which can
suggest that the cause of schizophrenia may not be entirely genetic and other factors such as the environment and cognition may also play a role in the risk of an individual developing schizophrenia.