The results looking for schizophrenia related genes have been abysmal.

John Medina, PhD (University of Washington) is an expert in the field and he
gives CME lectures on it at the Psychiatric Congress (CME, Inc.) yearly it
seems.

Look him up on Pub Med MEDLINE:
http://www.***.com/

-Bolt Upright

There are so many grey areas within psychiatry. The cases of the quadruplet
sisters who all became schizophrenic (or people affected and effected by
the disease schizophrenia) seemed like a perfect case for a genetic study,
yet it is overlook that they suffered a unjust and tortured up bringing at
the hands of their father. I do believe that this case has been recently
examined under a microscope and a book written about it.

As for a resource for the quest: [this should have something in the genetic
realm; I belive that NAMI often likes to ignore the theory that family and
society could have alot to due with the illness, and would be thrilled to
find a genetic predisposition

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
(c/o NAMI) : 1901 N Fort Meyer Drive, Ste. 500, Arlington, VA 22209
Tel# (703)524-7600

There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and
make it more difficult for all who come after. Who ever can't hit the nail
on the head should, please, not hit at all.
                                      -Nietzsche

I'm far from expert in this field, but I'll point out some commonplace
ideas:  just about anything of physiologicaL importance is determined
not by one gene but by interactions among several genes; and the name
of the game even then is not simply heritability of a particular
genetic profile, but on expression (of genes), and on the many
"internal" and "external" controls on transcription.

F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group

-Bolt