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I started this blog a few years ago when I turned twenty-five, and it began as a place for me to post about cheese, pottery and other things I thought were interesting over the course of that year. Now, even though my "Year Twenty-Five" is behind me, I keep this site as a way of collecting things I feel inspired by and/or would like to eat.

A bunch of people who study genetics just released a study in Nature that found there are WAY more genetic markers related to schizophrenia than we previously thought. Also, they found that there is likely a relationship between the immune system and this disease. From the abstract:

"Independent of genes expressed in brain, associations were enriched among genes expressed in tissues that have important roles in immunity, providing support for the speculated link between the immune system and schizophrenia."

Pretty cool. It will be really interesting to see what direction the research goes in the next decade or so.

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New Findings on Schizophrenia

"Independent of genes expressed in brain, associations were enriched among genes expressed in tissues that have important roles in immunity, providing support for the speculated link between the immune system and schizophrenia."