Velocardiofacial syndrome case report: Is this a homogeneous genetic subtype of Schizophrenia?
South African Family Practice
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Velocardiofacial syndrome case report: Is this a homogeneous genetic subtype of Schizophrenia? | |
| Creator | Roos, J.L. Honey, E.M. Pretorius, H.W. Sobin, C. Karayiorgiou, M. | |
| Description | In this case report of a 29 year old Afrikaner male, a diagnosis of velocardiofacial syndrome was made on clinical grounds. Later a FISH analysis test for 22q 11 microdeletion confirmed this clinical diagnosis. Specifically two independent studies have reported that 25-31% of patients with the 22q 11 microdeletion met diagnostic criteria for the schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorders, while the microdeletion occurs in the population at a rate of 0.025% it has been found in 2% of adult schizophrenia patients in the 6% of cases with childhood onset schizophrenia. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2003-05-31 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/safp.v45i2.1984 | |
| Source | South African Family Practice; Vol 45, No 2 (2003); 4 2078-6204 2078-6190 | |
| Language | eng | |
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