Psychiatric Disorders

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Genome to Mental Health consortium to study link between rare disorders, psychiatric conditions.

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An international collaboration will delve into why patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome have an elevated risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses. Genetics experts from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are among the top leaders of this major collaboration, which aims to discover the genes implicated in the syndrome and shed light on the biological causes of mental illness in the general population.