Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for schizophrenia or all non-affective psychoses.

Michael KingRebecca JonesIrene PetersenFiona HamiltonIrwin Nazareth

Published in: Psychological medicine (2020)

We found an important and strong association between smoking and incidence of schizophrenia. Smoking may increase risk through as yet unknown pathways or smoking may share genetic risk with schizophrenia and non-affective psychoses.

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bipolar disorder
smoking cessation
genome wide
gene expression
dna methylation
copy number