Microcosm Week: Dreaming of a Complete Solution to Life

Last week, three teams of scientists published three massive studies in Nature on the genes behind schizophrenia. They scanned thousands of people to find variants of genes that tended to show up more in people with schizophrenia than in those without it. And they found a heap of genes. There are thousands of different variants that each may raise your risk of schizophrenia by a tiny amount. Nicho

[kumicit]

"They scanned thousands of people to find variants of genes that tended to show up more in people with schizophrenia than in those without it. And they found a heap of genes. There are thousands of different variants that each may raise your risk of schizophrenia by a tiny amount."

[yuiami]

No wonder scientists find it hard to discover "genes for schizophrenia," considering the fact that functions in only 2/3 of genes in E. coli are specified despite that Crick proposed a program to discover all about Ec in 70s. What researchers found in E.coli is networks of networks of genes.