Digging Deeper Into The Genetics Of Schizophrenia By Evaluating ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 05/13/2008 - 12:15

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders.

They uncovered a previously unknown alteration in the production of microRNAs of a mouse modeled to have the same chromosome 22q11.2 deletions previously identified in humans with schizophrenia.

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