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Migration in adolescence may double the risk of psychosis in later life

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Migration in adolescence may double the risk of psychosis in later life

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Migration in adolescence may double the risk of psychosis in later life, and present even larger risk for migrants from racially minoritized young people, new data from five European countries suggests. 

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000134

Article Title: Age-at-migration, ethnicity and psychosis risk: Findings from the EU-GEI case-control study

Author Countries: Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Funding: The EU-GEI Study was funded by grant agreement HEALTH-F2-2010-241909 (Project EU-GEI) from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme. The Brazilian study was funded by grant 2012-0417-0 from the São Paulo Research Foundation. EU-GEI funding was awarded to the following authors (in order they appear in the authorship list): CA, LdH, DLB, ELC, JPS, AS, IT, BPFR, PBJ, CM, JBK. The funders of the EU-GEI study were not involved in the design of this study including analysis and interpretation. The manuscript submission was through decision of the authors. HA is recipient of a UCL-Wellcome Mental Health Science PhD studentship funded by The Wellcome Trust [218497/Z/19/Z].


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