Schizophrenia and Genetic Networking

Dr. Brad Pearce of Emory University explains the relationship between genetic networking and schizophrenia research. While Pearce's research is focusing on people with DiGeorge syndrome, he is collaborating with others to look at patients with more typical forms of schizophrenia as well as those who show no signs of the disease but have been identifying as being at high risk.

Background

Dissecting out individual genes linked to schizophrenia has been difficult, despite decades of research establishing an inherited component to the disease. People with a specific deletion on chromosome 22 (DiGeorge syndrome) have a high risk for schizophrenia. Dr. Brad Pearce (Emory University) summarizing a project that will use DiGeorge syndrome as an entry-point for identifying genes that, when they go haywire, are involved in schizophrenia.

Related Links

A shift in how geneticists study complex diseases
http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=560

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• schizophrenia
• genetics
• digeorge syndrome
• psychology
• psychiatry
• epidemiology
• genome-wide research
• genome
• emory university
• neurogenetics
• genetic networking

[happymomist07]

Give theese children earlier and better treatmant for their palate and speech problem, and i think learning dissabillities and mental illnes will dissapear.:) Shame you!!!