Prenatal nutrition, epigenetics and schizophrenia risk: can we test causal effects?

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Published in Epigenomics on June 01, 2012

Authors

James B Kirkbride1, Ezra Susser, Marija Kundakovic, Jacob K Kresovich, George Davey Smith, Caroline L Relton

Author Affiliations

1: EpiCentre group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Herchel Smith Building for Brain & Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK. jbk25@cam.ac.uk

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