HLA-B Gene and Schizophrenia
A recent study in the American Journal of Human Genetics has found that daughters whose HLA-B gene matched their mothers have a 70 percent higher risk of developing schizophrenia. Forbes quotes the researchers:
If this risk factor could be removed, up to 12 percent of cases of schizophrenia in daughters might be prevented.
I don’t dare say out loud how such a risk factor could be “removed.”
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