In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that schizophrenia affects about 24 million people worldwide, and one ...

A new study hints at a "previously recognized" mechanism that links a rare chromosomal disorder to schizophrenia.

Also, the larger the deletion, the more genes are likely to be involved, and the more drastic the resulting defect is likely to be. Scientists are thus discovering that recombination hotspots ...

Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS) is a genetic disorder caused by the deletion of part of chromosome 22. It occurs in approximately one in 4000 births and there are now more than 100 physical ...

To see if people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome have similar brain abnormalities, the team looked at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 80 people with the condition and from 68 without.