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Psychiatric genetics research
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What psychiatric genetics can and cannot tell an Indian family
What can genetics usefully do in your consultation room today? It can reduce blame. A mother did not cause schizophrenia by being ‘too strict’. A father did not ‘transmit’ bipolar disorder through a moral failing. Biology matters and families often find that acknowledgement to be a relief
Scientists find why a debilitating genetic disorder affects only Eurasians
According to Ashwin Dalal, a medical geneticist at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, the institute diagnoses one case of FRDA every month on average — and almost all of these individuals come from consanguineous marriages
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