Abstract
One piece of genetic evidence for the biological distinctness of schizophrenia and bipolar illness is the rarity of monozygotic twin pairs in which one twin suffers from schizophrenia and the other from bipolar disorder. The authors describe a pair of monozygotic mirror-image twins with discordant diagnoses, schizophrenia in one twin and bipolar or schizoaffective disorder in the other.
Publication types
-
Case Reports
-
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
-
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
-
Adult
-
Bipolar Disorder / genetics*
-
Brain / diagnostic imaging
-
Dermatoglyphics
-
Diseases in Twins / diagnosis
-
Diseases in Twins / genetics*
-
Female
-
Functional Laterality
-
Humans
-
Immunogenetics
-
Psychotic Disorders / genetics*
-
Schizophrenia / genetics*
-
Severity of Illness Index
-
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
-
Twins, Monozygotic / genetics