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The study shows that neurodevelopmental and psychiatric illnesses such as autism or schizophrenia can be influenced by hereditary and environmental factors. | Health
Predicting the trajectory of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders like autism or schizophrenia is difficult because they can be influenced by many different genetic and environmental factors.
<p>Evaluating both parents for their manifestation of traits of neurological and psychiatric disorders may provide a more accurate method of predicting the prevalence, and potentially severity, of the disorders in affected children than screening for genetic variants alone.</p>
A new statistical method provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions -; such as cell types or tissues.