Genes for schizophrenia uncovered (BBC)

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Three separate research projects have pinpointed genetic flaws linked to schizophrenia.

One of these, reported in the journal Nature, could mean a fifteen-fold increase in risk.

However, one of the researchers warned that schizophrenia is so complex genes alone will only ever partially explain the illness at best.

Mental health charities said genetic studies should be matched by work to reduce the known risk factors.

Scientists have suggested that an individual's risk of schizophrenia is roughly half dictated by their genetic make-up, and half by other factors during their lives.
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1. I know I know, researchers stated later on that they would have

found these genes years ago, but they were hiding behind several other genes.....

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