Science news articles about 'genetics of schizophrenia'

... together to decipher the role of individual genes from 22q11 in the development of schizophrenia by using human genetics and animal model approaches. The significance of this work is that it ...

... regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders. Maria Karayiorgou, M.D., professor of ...

... ." Establishing the link between the diseases may help scientists further understand the genetics of schizophrenia, he says. "And that may eventually enable some sort of intervention strategy."

... to be published online together in Nature on July 1. Their paper reports on the Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia Project. This undertaking implicated a region of the human genome not previously ...

Hoopla for new research on the genetics of schizophrenia is misplaced. The findings dash cold water on the hope of finding a simple genetic basis for the illness.