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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

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Is There a Convergence?

There's a small number of biological processes that underlie, or at least play the biggest role in every disorder. So if you look at schizophrenia, it's excitatory neuron function and inhibitory neuron function. In Alzheimer's, there are maybe ten different types of processes. And all these pathways are acting in the same tissue,. All of these tissues are converging together on the same biological process of schizophrenia.

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