Understanding Why Identical Twins Are Not Carbon Copies in Mental Illness
Understanding Why Identical Twins Are Not Carbon Copies in Mental Illness
Posted: September 26, 2011
Jonathan Mill, Ph.D., 2009 NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee and colleagues have demonstrated that potentially reversible epigenetic changes play a key role in mental illness. 'Our findings suggest that it is not only genetic variations that are important … our research could open up new avenues for the development of novel therapeutic drugs,' says Mill.