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Modeling schizophrenia in flies.
Progress in brain research - 1 Jan 2009
Furukubo-Tokunaga Katsuo
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1% of the population worldwide. Although its molecular etiology remains unclear, recent advances in human psychiatric genetics have identified a large number of candidate genetic risk factors involved in schizophrenia. Modeling the disease in genetically tractable animals is thus a challenging but increasingly important task. In this review, I discuss...
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