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Review: migrants are at increased risk of developing schizophrenia
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  • Published on: 11 October 2005
    Protection at home or risks away

    Dear Editor,

    Is it not just as plausible to postulate a relative protection from schizophrenia in less developed countries that is inversely proportional to their degree of development. In this scenario the schizophrenia genotypes would be more prevalent in these countries and only become more liable to expression upon migration. This of course would be particularly so for those in the high risk years which a numbe...

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