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To: one_less who wrote (58763)	10/6/2004 11:51:47 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Jewel. A virus which hijacks part of the human genetic code may have some link to the mental illness schizophrenia. The retrovirus may have invaded human DNA millions of years ago and been carried down through generations, say scientists. The experts believe that some activity from the retrovirus may have some unknown effect on the brain, perhaps contributing to a number of cases of schizophrenia. A study by a team from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore tested both diagnosed schizophrenics, and healthy volunteers for traces of the retrovirus. They found an "unexpectedly" high level of the retroviral traces in cerebrospinal fluid taken from the schizophrenics, compared to very little in the other study subjects.