Flawed Gene Activity May Contribute to Schizophrenia

Posted by NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on October 29th, 2007 at 02:51pm

By studying human brains from before birth through adulthood, researchers have identified a gene that increases its activity during normal brain development but that may fail to ramp up in people with schizophrenia. The faulty activity of this gene, called "GAD1", may be to blame for at least some cases of schizophrenia, the scientists say.

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