Many Genetic Contributions To Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder Discovered
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have discovered that many common genetic variants contribute to a person's risk of schizophrenia, providing the first molecular evidence that this form of genetic variation is involved in schizophrenia. The researchers also found that many of these DNA variations also are involved in bipolar disorder but not in several nonpsychiatric diseases.