'Eighty new genes linked to schizophrenia'
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'Eighty new genes linked to schizophrenia'
By Smitha Mundasad
Health reporter
July 21, 2014
Scientists have uncovered 80 previously unknown genes which may put people at risk of developing schizophrenia, research in Nature suggests.
The team says the world's largest genetic study of the disease shows it can have biological causes - putting it on a par with other medical conditions...
...Scientists have debated the relative role genes play in schizophrenia - a condition which affects more than 24 million people worldwide - for many years.
Now a global consortium across 35 countries has examined the genetic make-up of more than 37,000 people with the condition, comparing them with some 110,000 people without the disease....
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