Many+Genetic+Contributions+To+Schizophrenia,+Bipolar+Disorder+Discovered

July 2, 2009**
 * [|Science Daily]

A group made up of international scientists has recently discovered that many common DNA sequences contribute to a large amount of the risk of someone getting schizophrenia. This is actually the first molecular evidence proven that genetics play a large part in the disorder schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a common brain disease that plagues the inflicted with hallucinations and delusions. Even though they are treatments the disease never completely goes away and usually progresses with age. Through continuing to study these common genetics variants scientist hope to understand the biology of not only schizophrenia but bipolar disorder too.

The benefits of continuing to conduct research aren’t much but are very promising. Although scientists say they can’t predict an individual’s risk they are working on a way to isolate the genes and maybe cure those with the illness. This is only a possibility that could only be accomplished in the future but it’s a hopeful one.

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