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Genetic link to schizophrenia ‘greatly’ overestimated, more research urged
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31953
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , schizophrenia research , psychiatry , link (geometry) , psychology , focus (optics) , disease , medicine , computer science , pathology , computer network , physics , optics
A new study published in Psychiatry Research examining the limitations of genetic research studies on schizophrenia suggests that researchers have greatly overestimated schizophrenia as being primarily a genetic disease. Future research should focus on the nongenetic aspects, the authors say.