Tracing schizophrenia’s origins: Study maps chromatin accessibility in postmortem brain tissue

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, false beliefs about oneself or the world (i.e., delusions), and other disruptions in thought, emotion and perception. Recent genetic studies show that many risk variants for this disorder lie in noncoding regions of the genome—stretches of DNA that do not alter protein sequences but regulate how genes are switched on and off.

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