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Rare variants are common in schizophrenia

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A large DNA sequencing study of schizophrenia finds more evidence that rare inherited coding mutations across many genes contribute to risk of the disorder. This has important implications for geneticists and neuroscientists alike.

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Figure 1: Whole-exome sequencing studies of schizophrenia in the context of recent milestones in schizophrenia genetics.

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  1. Jacob Gratten is in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,

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Gratten, J. Rare variants are common in schizophrenia. Nat Neurosci 19, 1426–1428 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4422

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