Many individuals today suffer from a wide range of mental illness. Many genetic researchers have and are currently looking for genetic links to different psychiatric illnesses. One recent study, showed that the inheritance of a translocation linked to mental illnesses is associated with differential DNA methylation at loci that are associated with neuronal development/function and psychiatric illnesses. They found this by examining blood-based DNA methylation in 41 individuals.
The article can be found here in Nature.
-Sam
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