Schizophrenia genes: on the matter of their convergence.

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Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder, affecting 0.5-1% of the population. The mode of inheritance is complex and non-Mendelian with a high heritability of ca. 65-80%. Given this complexity, until most recently it was difficult to identify disease genes. But fortunately this has changed. Due to new technologies the last few years have brought highest interest in human genetics of complex diseases. The...

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