modifications) may be involved (Daxinger and Whitelaw, 2012; Dempster et al., 2013), and contribute to gene–environment interactions, whereby part of the genetic risk for schizophrenia operates by altering sensitivity to environmental factors, such as obstetric complications or early use of cannabis. As with epistasis, there are some intriguing findings (e.g. Børglum et al., 2014; Di Forti et al., 2012; Nicodemus et al., 2008) but as yet few robust data (Iyegbe et al., 2014).