Mutations not inherited from parents cause more than half the cases of schizophrenia
Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have shown that new, or "de novo," protein-altering mutations -- genetic errors that are present in patients but not in their parents -- play a role in more than 50 percent of "sporadic" -- i.e., not hereditary -- cases of schizophrenia.
