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Experts, after conducting a large-scale study, were able to identify genes that increase the risk of developing schizophrenia in humans.
Official representatives of the press center of the American Society for Human Genetics published on the Internet a report on the results of research conducted by geneticists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A new study looked at factors that increase the chances of developing schizophrenia and other mental disorders among people.
“We were able to identify ten key genes that, if disrupted, greatly increase the likelihood of a disease like schizophrenia,” the authors say..
“Of these, two are associated with the work of glutamate receptors. Our group of scientists agreed that there are a huge number of unexplored sections of DNA of this kind, ”concludes one of the geneticists who took part in the new study..
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