Largest study of its kind finds rare genetic variations linked to schizophrenia

(University of California - San Diego) Genetic variations that increase schizophrenia risk are rare, making it difficult to study their role. To overcome this, the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, an international team led by Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, analyzed the genomes of more than 41,000 people in the largest study of its kind to date. Their study, published Nov. 21 in Nature Genetics, reveals regions of the genome where mutations increa...