Schizophrenia can be cured by Genetic Mutation

Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder due to an interruption in the brain's neurons are difficult to cure. But recently, scientists have discovered a genetic mutation 'rare' can help to cure schizophrenia.

Although only one-third of 1 percent of schizophrenia patients who successfully cured with this treatment, but treatment with these gene mutations may be key to further treatment. Currently, medical treatment is not yet able to cure schizophrenia. Treatment is limited to controlling symptoms with medications and other therapies.

Researchers have known that genes play an important role in schizophrenia. Have a parent or a brother with mental health disorders, will increase the risk many times.

Patients with schizophrenia may have a variety of genes related to schizophrenia. This is a rare gene variations, which is the result of deletions or duplications of gene segments.

DNA contains millions of gene variations, there are several inherited in families, but many also possessed a unique individual. Previous studies have known the role of dozens of genes in schizophrenia cases.

Dr. Jonathan Sebat of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues at 14 centers of research, assesed gene variations in patients with schizophrenia.

Scientists find 802 patients with schizophrenia and 742 control patients. In the online edition of Nature magazine on February 23, 2011, they reported finding 114 unique genes. They then assess whether these genes associated with schizophrenia to examine it in a much larger group, nearly 7,500 patients with schizophrenia and more than 6,500 control patients.

Patients with schizophrenia proved 14 times more likely to have multiple copies of a gene on 7 proteins chromosome than in controls patients that called VIPR2.

VIPR2 is the conductor of the chemical receptors involved in brain development. Both are known a role in regulating neuronal growth, affecting learning and memory. Only 29 of 8290 patients (0.35%) who had the gene variation VIPR2.

"Although it variation may only litle explain of this cases, but these rare mutations can result clues important that causes this form of schizophrenia," explained NIMH director Thomas R. Dr. Insel, as quoted from Epharmapedia, Thursday (04/08/2011).

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