High-throughput biotech and big-data sifting of genetic/protein variants that may play a role in development of mental disorders, including roles at the early stages of the ontogenesis.
Since there are “eight diseases” mentioned, schizophrenia must be on the list too, but the full text of the paper is restricted in access.
“Researchers first took all 17,841 genetic variants from the 136 “hot spots” and inserted them into human neural cells to see how they acted in a living system. After putting the variants through the massively parallel reporter assay, researchers found that 683 of the 17,841 genetic variants had a measurable effect on gene regulation.”
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# Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes, Study Says
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