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The Gene Expression Hypothesis: How Modulation in DNA Activity May Explain Psychiatric Disorders

Edmund S. Higgins, M.D.

  At the completion of this session, the participant should be able to:

1)

Discuss the significance of gene expression in psychiatric disorders

2)

Describe the different effects that methylation and acetylation have on DNA

3)

List examples of psychiatric disorders for which alteration of gene expression may explain the development of the illness

  
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