Association of pro-inflammatory cytokine gene polymorphisms with schizophrenia in South Indian population

摘要: Background Schizophrenia is a severe and debilitating mental illness. Around 0.26% of people in South India suffer from schizophrenia. It complex disorder which may involve multiple genes with mild to moderate effect nongenetic risk factors like environmental psychological assaults. Cytokines, regulators immune/inflammatory reactions brain development, emerge as part common pathway genetic components Our study explored the association polymorphisms cytokine schizophrenia, interaction these causation disease population genetics gene polymorphisms.