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Researchers piece together gene 'network' linked to schizophrenia

September 02, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have uncovered for the first time molecular circuitry associated with schizophrenia that links three ...


Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot

September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled ...


The first autism disease genes

September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

The autistic disorder was first described, more than sixty years ago, by Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA), who created the new label 'early infantile autism'. At the same time an Austrian scientist, Dr. ...