Schizophrenia and mental retardation associated in a pedigree with retinitis pigmentosa and sensorineural deafness |
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Authors: | C. W. Sharp W. J. Muir D. H. R. Blackwood M. Walker C. Gosden D. M. St. Clair |
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Affiliation: | University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | A family is presented with multiple cases of mild mental retardation, schizophrenia and other functional psychoses, progressive hearing loss, and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It closely resembles a previously reported Finnish family. We suggest that the phenotypes are not associated in this family by chance, but define a novel syndrome which may be caused by a mutant allele at a single genetic locus. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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Keywords: | blindness Usher syndrome psychosis anticipation family studies |
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