Joker
February 12, 2020, 6:14pm
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I don’t really understand how I got Schizophrenia.
It’s not present in my mothers side of the family
It must be on my dads side, but he is dead and his family has nothing to do with me
A large proportion of cases is related to neither of the parents and is linked to newly-arizing mutations carried only by the patient.
Do you have an article on that?
A quote from a recent study in Africa:
" Therefore, the genetic architecture of schizophrenia is characterized by damaging mutations that are very recent or de novo and thus individually extremely rare ( 2 – 5 )."
The genetics of schizophrenia have predominately been studied in populations of European and Asian descent. However, studies in Africans, who host the greatest degree of human genetic diversity, have lagged. Examining the exomes of more than 1800...
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