Ucla Schizophrenia
U.S. and Dutch researchers have pinpointed three new candidate genes for schizophrenia, according to a news release from UCLA. In their study, scientists examined the genes of 54 patients, looking for a number of large but rare deletions and duplications--known as copy number variants (CNVs)--in the patients' genes. The research team found that three of these rare CNVs interrupted genes were linked to brain function and were found in many of the schizophrenia patients. The study's lead author...
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