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Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on May 11, 2010
Analysis of the genetic pattern of individuals with schizophrenia has discovered numerous variations in DNA that increase the risk of developing the disease.
Significantly, many of these variations occur in genes that affect signaling among brain cells.
“When we compared the genomes of patients with schizophrenia to those of healthy subjects, we found variations in genes that regulate brain functions, several of which are already known to be perturbed in patients with this disorder,†said study leader Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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