In a new study, scientists at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories have found that rates of genetic deletions and duplications are three to four times higher in people with schizophrenia. These genetic mutations are more likely to disrupt that brain’s signaling genes, which affect brain development. Further, researchers found that “most patients have different mutations” which cause them to have schizophrenia. (While autism was once referred to as child schizophrenia, they are different diagnoses; here’s an interesting note about this at Left Brain/Right Brain.)
As today’s Science Daily reports:
Some deletions and duplications are common and found in …read more