Chunk #0 — INTRODUCTION

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Replication of association between schizophrenia and ZNF804A in the Irish Case-Control Study of Schizophrenia sample.

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Schizophrenia (MIM 181500) is a severe psychiatric illness with complex etiology and lifetime prevalence of ~1% worldwide. Family, twin and adoption studies have consistently demonstrated an important genetic component to schizophrenia, together with developmental and environmental influences1,2.