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Brief Report

Prenatal x-ray exposure may increase risk of schizophrenia: Results from the Jerusalem perinatal cohort schizophrenia study

Raz GrossDivision of Psychiatry, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel;Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
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Hamada HamidCenter for Global Health Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
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Susan HarlapDepartment of Psychiatry and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Dolores MalaspinaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, New York, NY, USA
Pages 236-240 | Published online: 05 Apr 2018

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