Posted by alexandra_k on September 27, 2006, at 2:08:31
In reply to Re: genetics of schizophrenia, posted by SLS on September 27, 2006, at 1:11:48
> I wonder to what degree schizophrenia and other mental illnesses were tolerated within the group?I've heard it is controversial whether there are records of schizophrenic symptoms (in terms of enough of them cooccuring to warrant what we would now regard to be a dx of schizophrenia) before... Around the time of... The industrial revolution.
That lent some credibility to the virus in the second (I know I said third before but I should have said SECOND) trimester notion. The notion is that the virus occured around the time of the industrial revolution.
> The only way these defective genes...
I don't know that it has been established that they are 'defective'.
The majority of people with a dx of schizophrenia don't have the gene though.It MIGHT be the case that the people with the gene who don't have schizophrenia would have got schizophrenia if they had certain other genes... or it MIGHT be the case that the people whith the gene who don't have schizophrenia would have got schizophrenia if they had a virus in the second trimester..
But how about the people who have schizophrenia who don't have the gene?
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