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We believe it's a combination of genetics and environment. Envoriment alone can not cause schizophrenia.

schizophrenia has the strongest link to genetics than other physiatric disorders.

Relatives often have mild symptoms of the disorder.

Genetic

1944-45 Dutch Hunger Winter when a sharp and time-limited decline in food intake occurred in Holland, the most exposed group of children conceived during the famine showed a two-fold increased risk of schizophrenia. Similar results were proven for children conceived during the 1959-1961 famine in China, thus establishing that nutritional deficiency during a pregnancy has an impact on the child’s vulnerability to schizophrenia in the pre-adolescent days.