Mount Sinai Research Underscores the Complexity in Schizophrenia

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai revealed new information regarding the genetic complexity underpinning of schizophrenia. Scientists at Mount Sinai collaborated with researchers at several other universities to create a large-scale project that sequenced the genes of 6,948 people in Bulgaria and Sweden, including those diagnosed with schizophrenia, their parents, and healthy controls. Scientists found that a large number of rare genetic mutations contribute to the disease, not just a few ‘faulty’ genes as previously believed. The clinical and genetic information that was gathered on more than 3,000 people has produced the world’s largest database on schizophrenia, establishing a critical new resource for the biomedical community. To read more about this study, click here.