Rates of rare mutations soar 3 to 4 times higher in schizophrenia

1 Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
3 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
4 Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
5 Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
6 Department of Psychiatry, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
7 Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
8 Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
9 Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
10 Cancer Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
11 Neurogenetics Laboratory, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

*These authors contributed equally to this work.
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