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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2009 Jan 17;373(9659):10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60072-6. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60072-6

Table 2.

Recurrence risks for schizophrenia and bipolar disorders and co-morbidity in parent-offspring and siblings.

Proband Relation to
proband
Risk for schizophrenia
when proband has
schizophrenia
Risk for bipolar
disorder when
proband has bipolar
disorder
Risk for schizophrenia
when proband has
bipolar disorder
Risk for bipolar
disorder when proband
has schizophrenia

Relative
Risk
95% CI Relative
Risk
95% CI Relative
Risk
95% CI Relative
Risk
95% CI
Parent Offspring 9.9 8.5–11.6 6.4 5.9–7.1 2.4 2.1–2.6 5.2 4.4–6.2
Sibling Sibling 9.0 8.1–9.9 7.9 7.1–8.8 3.9 3.4–4.4 3.7 3.2–4.2
Sibling Maternal half-sibling 3.6 2.3–5.5 4.5 2.7–7.4 1.4 0.7–2.6 1.2 0.6–2.4
Sibling Paternal half-sibling 2.7 1.9–3.8 2.4 1.4–4.1 1.6 1.0–2.7 2.2 1.3–3.8

Adoptive relationships
Biological parent Adopted away offspring 13.7 6.1–30.8 4.3 2.0–9.5 4.5 1.8–10.9 6.0 2.3–15.2
Sibling Adopted away biological sibling 7.6 0.7–87.8 - 3.9 0.2–63.3 5.0 0.3–79.9
Adoptive parent Adoptee - 1.3 0.5–3.6 1.5 0.7–3.5 -
Sibling Non-biological sibling 1.3 0.1–15.1 - - 2.0 0.1–37.8