Monday, 09.08.2010
Trinity College Dublin researchers shed new light on schizophrenia

Trinity College Dublin Researchers Shed New Light On Schizophrenia

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The gene ZNF804A associated with increased risk for schizophrenia may be particularly important for the form that the disorder takes. That is the finding recently published by researchers from the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group (NRG) at Trinity College Dublin in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the prestigious peer-reviewed journal in psychiatry.

The study, which represented an international collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Cardiff and Munich, was led by Trinity College Dublin researchers Dr Gary Donohoe, Professor Aiden Corvin, Dr Derek Morris, and Professor Michael Gill of the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, TCD. The study was based on samples of patients and healthy control participants from Ireland and Germany and was sponsored by Science Foundation Ireland, The Wellcome Trust and NARSAD. Read on..