Topic: Judith Rapoport
A gene implicated in schizophrenia in adults has now also been linked to schizophrenia in children for the first time, strengthening evidence that the gene plays a role in the disease. The gene, NGR1, produces neuregulin, a protein crucial to brain development ...
3/27/2008 Print E-mail Scientists have found that deletions and duplications in DNA are more common in people with schizophrenia, and these errors are in genes related to brain development and neurological function. "We found areas in people's DNA that ...
Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia Tom Walsh, Jon M. McClellan, Shane E. McCarthy, Anjene M. Addington, Sarah B. Pierce, Greg M. Cooper, Alex S. Nord, Mary Kusenda, Dheeraj Malhotra, Abishek Bhandari, Sunday M. Stray, Caitlin F ...
The pattern of brain growth during development may figure more importantly than overall brain size when it comes to intelligence, according to a new study. "Brainy children are not cleverer solely by virtue of having more or less gray matter at any ...
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Copy Number Variants (1 of 6)
Professor Judith Rapoport introduces copy number variants, which are deletions ...2009-10-28 -
Bipolar Disorder in Children - Brain Abnormalities...
Professor Judith Rapoport discusses her research group's finding that ...2009-10-28 -
Whole Genome Expression - Schizophrenia (6 of ...
Professor Judith Rapoport describes gene expression as messy and inconsistent ...2009-10-28
