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To: Sherman Logan
Nobody has a clue at this point in time what causes schizophrenia, but a simple genetic cause is unlikely.

Indeed. Research implicates a number of genes contributing to the illness. And, to make matters even more complicated, a set of genes can be related to a specific condition, but one person with those genes gets it, and another doesn't.

22 posted on 05/26/2013 5:20:57 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom

Eventually we may be able to determine risk of a person developing schizophrenia, just as we now can with breast and other cancers. But it seems highly unlikely that determination of schizophrenia (and a host of other conditions) will ever be reduced to a yes/no dichotomy as with Down’s Syndrome.


26 posted on 05/26/2013 5:36:58 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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