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Thirty years ago, it would have seemed preposterous to even ask whether season of birth might have anything to do with the aetiology of schizophrenia since the relationship between the time of birth and the fate of the individual was then not even a proper subject for scientific study.
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Dalén, P. (1990). Deviant Birth Season Distribution: Does it Offer a Clue to the Aetiology of Schizophrenia?. In: Häfner, H., Gattaz, W.F. (eds) Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74881-3_2
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