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Science 9 May 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3880, pp. 723 - 724
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3880.723
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Sex Ratios of Newborns: Associated with Prepartum and Postpartum Schizophrenia

M. A. Taylor 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, New York 10029

From a review of the records of schizophrenic women whose psychotic symptoms were associated with pregnancy, it was found that those who had developed a psychosis within 1 month of conception delivered only live female infants. A predominance of males was born to 13 women who became psychotic during the first month after delivery. These observations are interpreted as consistent with a theory that schizophrenia is associated with plasma factors which interact with the fetus and provide the basis for a higher fetal mortality.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Offspring of Schizophrenics: Fetal and Neonatal Deaths.
R. O. Rieder, D. Rosenthal, and P. Wender (1975)
Arch Gen Psychiatry 32, 200-211
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Schneiderian First-Rank Symptoms and Clinical Prognostic Features in Schizophrenia.
M. A. Taylor (1972)
Arch Gen Psychiatry 26, 64-67
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