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Understanding Schizophrenia | finding genetic associations

Excessive synaptic pruning in the maturing brains of adolescents may help to explain the biological cause of schizophrenia.

According to a landmark study published in Nature, the study builds on population-level research that has shown that the strongest genetic associations for schizophrenia are variations in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus.

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