Dissecting Schizophrenia Genetics

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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) summarizes a project that will use DiGeorge syndrome as an entry-point for identifying genes that, when they go haywire, are involved in schizophrenia.

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