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Q: Can It Change

asked by: Hart74 on December 11th, 2007

Active User, very eHealthy

Hi just wondering can someone who is schizophenic 'pass' down the genes to a family member let say the mom who is a schizophenic can she pass it to a her child, not schizophenic but bi-polar instead?

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Georgia59

replied on December 17th, 2007

Especially eHealthy

Yep-
however, it's a slightly higher risk. Not a sure thing.
In the DSM-IV, it states that there seems to be a slightly higher risk for schizophrenia for siblings and children of people with schizophrenia, and I think for bipolar disorder as well.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?c md=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstrac tPlus&list_uids=16319375

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