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Zooming in on a gene

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Genome-wide association studies are often criticized for providing little insight of immediate physiological relevance. The finding of one such study, which implicates a signalling molecule in schizophrenia, is welcome news. See Letter p.499

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  1. Hugh D. Piggins is in the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.,

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Piggins, H. Zooming in on a gene. Nature 471, 455–456 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471455a

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