AT LAST comes solid evidence that genes may predispose someone to developing schizophrenia.
of Cardiff University, UK, and colleagues found that a gene called ZNF804A increases the risk of the disorder by about 1 per cent (Nature Genetics, ). of the University of Aberdeen, UK, and colleagues discovered that when regions on chromosomes 1 and 15 are missing, the risk of schizophrenia can jump 15-fold (Nature, ).
Finally, the International Schizophrenia Consortium found that people with schizophrenia tend to have more “copy number variations” – repeated or missing gene fragments –…
