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Breaking the gene barrier in schizophrenia

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Studies of schizophrenia have been plagued by shortcomings such as weak genetic association with disease, inadequate animal models and limited replication of gene expression findings. Future success may lie not in overcoming any one of these limitations but in a broad approach strengthening the evidence in each area. Using such an approach, neuroscientists have uncovered a new gene behind the disease (pages 509–518).

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Figure 1: Schizophrenia is a multifaceted disturbance.

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  1. Károly Mirnics is in the Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,

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  2. Szatmár Horváth is in the Department of Psychiatry, and the Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.,

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