Br J Psychiatry. 1979 Jun;134:635-6.

Consanguinity and schizophrenia in Sudan.

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The rate of first-cousin marriages among the patients of schizophrenics was compared with a control group in an isolated highly inbred sudanese community, no significant difference being found.

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