Increased morbid risk for schizophrenia-related disorders in relatives of schizotypal personality disordered patients.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
To evaluate whether probands from a clinical sample diagnosed as having DSM-III schizotypal and/or paranoid personality disorder have a familial relationship to the schizophrenia-related disorders, the morbid risk for schizophrenia-related disorders and other psychiatric disorders were evaluated in the first-degree relatives of patients with schizotypal and/or paranoid personality disorder and compared with the corresponding risk for these disorders in the first-degree relatives of patients with other non-schizophrenia-related personality disorders. The morbid risk for all schizophrenia-related disorders, and specifically for schizophrenia-related personality disorders, was significantly greater among the relatives of the probands with schizotypal and/or paranoid personality disorder than among the relatives of probands with other personality disorder. The morbid risk for other psychiatric disorders did not differ significantly between the first-degree relatives of the schizotypal/paranoid personality disorder and the other personality disorder control proband samples. These results suggest a specific familial association between schizophrenia-related disorders, particularly schizophrenia-related personality disorders, and clinically diagnosed schizotypal patients.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Siever, LJ; Silverman, JM; Horvath, TB; Klar, H; Coccaro, E; Keefe, RS; Pinkham, L; Rinaldi, P; Mohs, RC; Davis, KL
Published Date
- July 1, 1990
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 47 / 7
Start / End Page
- 634 - 640
PubMed ID
- 2360857
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0003-990X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810190034005
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States