creators_name: Straube, E.R.
creators_name: Oades, R.D.
creators_name: Lewontin, R.C.
creators_name: Rose, S.
creators_name: Kamin, L.J.
creators_name: Lilienfeld, S.O.
editors_name: Lilienfeld, S.O.
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2001-03-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:36
metadata_visibility: show
title: Does Schizophrenia have a substantial genetic component?
ispublished: pub
subjects: clin-psy
subjects: neuro-psych
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: schizophrenia, genetics, twins, environment, culture, concordance, discordance, eugenics, genotype, penetrance, phenotype, polygenic inheritance, schizotypal personality disorder, zygosity, adoption, 
abstract: Aims: 
A side by side comparison of two articles : - 

Genetic studies [ Is schizophrenia inherited ? ] E.R.Straube & R.D. Oades

Schizophrenia: The clash of determinisms R.C. Lewontin, S. Rose, L.J. Kamin

with an 
Introduction to the Controversy, Discussion, Questions to stimulate discussion and Suggestions for further reading 
from S.O. Lilienfeld
Straube and Oades review the evidence from twin adoption studies of schizophrenia and conclude that schizophrenia is substantially influenced by genetic factors. Lewontin, Rose and Kamin find the evidence for the heritability of schizophrenia to be unconvincing and argue that greater attention should be focused on social and cultural factors in the genesis of schizophrenia.

date: 1994
date_type: published
publication: Seeing both sides: classic controversies in abnormal psychology
publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
pagerange: 83-115
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Straube, E.R. and Oades, R.D. and Lewontin, R.C. and Rose, S. and Kamin, L.J. and Lilienfeld, S.O.  (1994) Does Schizophrenia have a substantial genetic component?  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1373/2/schiz-straube-1994.pdf