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  Genain_quadruplets - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet girls notable for all being schizophrenic, demonstrating a large genetic component to the cause of the disease.
Genain's mother had a three-year nervous breakdown in her late teens, and frequently threatened to kill herself and her husband later in life.
Genain himself kept an unusually strict watch on his quadruplet girls, insisting on personally transporting them and having lunch together at the same time every day even after the girls were well into their twenties.
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  Genain quadruplets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet girls notable for all being schizophrenic, demonstrating a large genetic component to the cause of the disease.
Genain's mother had a three-year nervous breakdown in her late teens, and frequently threatened to kill herself and her husband later in life.
Genain was greatly concerned with stopping Hester and Iris from masturbating.
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 Genain quadruplets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The Genains are a set of identical quadruplet girls notable for all being schizophrenic, demonstrating a large genetic component to the cause of the disease.
Genain's siblings indicative of mental illness, including an unemployed brother who slept with his 13-year-old daughter, another brother who was an alcoholic, another who reported hearing voices.
Genain himself kept an unusually strict watch on his quadruplet girls, insisting on personally transporting them and having lunch together at the same time every day even after the girls were well into their twenties.
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 This is Cheshire | CommuniGate | Quads of America
The "Genain" quadruplets (Nora, Iris, Myra and Hester) were studied extensively because all four developed varying degrees of schizophrenia.
The pseudonym Genain was used to protect their identity, as was the first names used in the studies.
I was one of four quadruplets, 3 identical and 1 fraternal.
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 Four Sisters With Schizophrenia, Four Decades of Scrutiny
But the sisters, known as the Genains, are far from typical: Born in 1930, they are among the oldest living quadruplets, and they are all identical.
He notes that the Genains' father was a harsh and brutal man who treated Myra and Nora preferentially, expecting more of them and thereby hastening their intellectual and emotional development.
Genains research contributes to "an enlightened view of how genes and environmental factors are continuously interacting to make all of us what we are," says Gottesman.
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 Chapter Paper #5
Myra, the fourth identical quadruplet, panicked easily and could not be reassured, but did not actually break down until the age of 24.
Genain, was an alcoholic who hounded, spied on, terrorized, and sexually molested the girls.
Genain, was curiously blind to her husband's actions and offered the girls little support.
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 Medscape MEDLINE search: Quadruplets
In the course of a study on reproduction in the nine-banded armadillo, conceptuses between the beginning of implantation and primitive streak formation were examined to determine the manner of trophoblast differentiation during invasion of the endometrium and the sequence involved in formation of four identical quadruplets.
Maternal morbidity and obstetric complications in triplet pregnancies and quadruplet and higher-order multiple pregnancies.
The origins and outcomes of triplet and quadruplet pregnancies in Nova Scotia: 1980 to 2001.
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 Amazon.com: quadruplets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Genain Quadruplets: A Case Study and Theoretical Analysis of Heredity and Environment In Schizophre by David Rosenthal; Editor (Hardcover - 1963)
Decoding the risk multiple: whether it's a happy event such as the birth of quadruplets to an employee or the kind of unhappy incident that inflicts multiple...
On triplets and quadruplets in Finland by Maija Miettinen (Unknown Binding - 1954)
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 Laughing quadruplets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
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Video quadruplets cracking upwhat makes it all girl quadruplets born in diapers, I. A part of higherorder multiplesa brief overview of birth of her mouth wide.
I just smile and say, no, quadruplets, joshua, joseph, stephen and two more on the steeves sisters.
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 Quadruplets at DNA Testing Resources
An international non-profit, charity support network for families who have or are expecting triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or higher.
Angela Magdeleno, who had triplets three years ago, gave birth to quadruplets on July 6 by Caesarean...
Mom has quadruplets, 3 years after triplets Two boys, two girls were born without fertility...
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 The Genain Quadruplets 25 years later: a diagnostic and biochemical followup.
The Genain Quadruplets 25 years later: a diagnostic and biochemical followup.
A biological and clinical followup of the Genain Quadruplets was initiated as a multilaboratory collaborative effort at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
The quadruplets are 51-year-old monozygotic women previously studied with a battery of psychological and physiological tests 25 years ago at the NIMH.
www.medscape.com /medline/abstract/6096907   (202 words)

  
 Schizophrenia.com
These quadruplet girls were the subject of intense study over a period of many years.
The age of onset and the severity of the symptoms were related to birth weight, the lightest birth weight showing the earliest and most severe symptoms.
The mother of the girls had some problems (not the least of which were a schizophrenic husband and quadruplet daughters!), but was not diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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 Team projects on www for Psychbiology - 2001
Though the four ladies are genetically identical, and were raised in the same dysfunctional household, the actual expression of the illness differs among the four.
The Quadruplet study typifies the point that while heredity is very important many other factors besides genetics may contribute to how the predisposition to schizophrenia is expressed.
The Quadruplets serve as an example of the fact that from a familial perspective the subtypes of schizophrenia are not etiologically distinct syndromes.
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 Tag Articles | Gather
February 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --     These are the Genain quadruplets.
They are four identical quadruplets who all have schizophrenia.
The name "Genain" is a false name used to protect their confidentiality.
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 Find in a Library: The Genain quadruplets; a case study and theoretical analysis of heredity and environment in ...
Find in a Library: The Genain quadruplets; a case study and theoretical analysis of heredity and environment in schizophrenia.
The Genain quadruplets; a case study and theoretical analysis of heredity and environment in schizophrenia.
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 BioMed Central | Full text | Theories of schizophrenia: a genetic-inflammatory-vascular synthesis
As a cautionary note, most of the neuroimaging and neuropathology results are subject to confounds from the effects of medications and various other treatments, post-mortem intervals, possible effects of diet, smoking habits, as well as a myriad of other potential confounds associated with glucocorticoid mediated stress following chronic illness and associated life's limitations [33,34].
Within families (and thus presuming relative homogeneity of genetic and environmental factors) symptoms can vary widely over time, as illustrated by identical quadruplets concordant for schizophrenia [35].
Rosenthal D: The Genain Quadruplets: A Case Study and Theoretical Analysis of Heredity and Environment in Schizophrenia.
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 lbc_overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
This work, conducted in conjunction with investigators from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, involves combined neuropsychological and genotypic study of the Genain quadruplets.
The study is designed to discover whether a particular genetic anomaly found in a group of schizophrenic Swedish triplets will also characterize the Genains.
The latter are a well-known group of identical quadruplets, all of whom developed schizophrenia during their early years, although to differing degrees of severity.
lbc.nimh.nih.gov /overview.html   (3256 words)

  
 Facts About Multiples: Quads and Quints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
If they are, they would be the oldest quadruplets ever at 82.
Wilma died at age 71 in January 2002 and Helen in 2003.
The identical "Genain" quadruplets were girls born in the US and studied extensively because all four developed varying degrees of schizophrenia before age 24.
www.threebluestars.com /multiples/quadruplets.html   (596 words)

  
 quadruplets - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Phrases that include quadruplets: bruns constant for prime quadruplets, genain quadruplets
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 The borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder would be described on which axis of DSM (the ...
The borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder would be described on which axis of DSM (the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association)?
That all the quadruplets developed schizophrenia suggests genetic causes, but the development and treatment of schizophrenia varied across the quads, suggesting that environmental factors were at work too
The best research evidence suggests that about _____ of the populations will suffer from schizophrenia.
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 Gresham College | Search Lectures and Events
This is not just to say, 'oh, let us all be friends and it is nature and nurture'; it is just really what the data says.
The Genain quadruplets are identical quadruplets, where their mother was very severely schizophrenic, and they all became schizophrenic.
This is an experiment of nature, where you have these two types of twins.
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 POWERWEB: Abnormal Psychology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
A 39-Year Followup of the Genain Quadruplets, Allan F. Mirsky, Linas A. Bieliauskas, Louis M. French, Daniel P. Van Kammen, Erik Jonsson, and Goran Sedvall, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 26, Number 3, 2000
Perhaps the most well-known case of schizophrenia is that of the Genain quadruplets.
Scientists have followed their lives for more than a half century now, and in this follow-up report, they point to a variety of possible deficits in both biological and psychological factors that are seemingly involved in this highly unusual case.
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 A 39-year followup of the Genain quadruplets: An article from: Schizophrenia Bulletin - engineersbookshop.com Info and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
A 39-year followup of the Genain quadruplets: An article from: Schizophrenia Bulletin - engineersbookshop.com Info and Reviews
A 39-year followup of the Genain quadruplets: An article from: Schizophrenia Bulletin
Ebook / A 39-year followup of the Genain quadruplets: An article from: Schizophrenia Bulletin
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 Facts About Multiples: Quads and Quints
I don't have information on if all 4 are still living.
If they are, they would be the oldest quadruplets ever at 82.
The identical "Genain" quadruplets were girls born in the US and studied extensively because all four developed varying degrees of schizophrenia before age 24.
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 The Genain Quadruplets by Craig Olson — havana, genain, mesa | Gather
The Genain Quadruplets by Craig Olson — havana, genain, mesa
tags: havana, genain, mesa, mental health, platelets, cuba, castillo, quadruplets, schizophrenia
I will probably post more blogs on schizophrenia.
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