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Rare mutations may have big impact on schizophrenia pathology
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Rare mutations may have big impact on schizophrenia pathology

by  Elsevier Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that disrupts brain activity producing hallucinations, delusions, and other cognitive disturbances. Researchers have long searched for genetic influences in the disease, but genetic mutations have been identified in only a small fraction—fewer than a quarter—of sequenced patients. A new study now shows that “somatic” gene...