Association study of fibroblast growth factor genes and brain volumes in schizophrenic patients and healthy controls.

Psychiatr Genet

aDepartment of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht bDepartment of Language and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cRadboud University Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour dDepartment of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Published: December 2014

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