Article
Schizophrenia genetics: putting all the pieces together.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 1 Jun 2012
Girard Simon L, Dion Patrick A, Rouleau Guy A
Abstract excerpt
Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder characterized by a deep disruption of the thinking process and of emotional response. For many decades, genetics studies have yielded little success in identifying genetic factors responsible for the disease. However, with the recent breakthroughs in genome analysis technologies, the field of the genetics of schizophrenia has progressed a lot in the last years. Both common...
Topics
- Gene Dosage
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Schizophrenia