Study Says Pregnancy Complications Might ‘Turn On’ Child’s Schizophrenia Genes

BALTIMORE (CNN) – Schizophrenia is thought to be caused by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors. But new research suggests that complications during pregnancy could increase nearly five-fold the child’s risk of developing schizophrenia later in life in high-risk individuals.
These complications appear to ‘turn on’ genes in the placenta that have been associated with schizophrenia, the researchers said.
“The complications that mattered were very serious obs