Am J Psychiatry 1977; 134:424-426
Copyright © 1977 by American Psychiatric Association
Chromosome variants in children with psychiatric disorders
B Say, NJ Carpenter, PR Lanier, C Banez, K Jones and JG Coldwell
The authors studied the frequency of chromosome variants in 48 hospitalized
children with psychiatric diagnoses (study group) in comparison with 10
hospitalized children with nonpsychiatric diagnoses (control group) and the
results of three surveys of newborn children. They found that the frequency
of variants in their study group was elevated in comparison with their
control group and with the newborn surveys.
