Mental illness is in your 30,000 genes

In an understatement of the month story, researchers say genetic tests for mental illness propensity are far, far away.

Technically, it’s 30,000 gene variations, not 30,000 separate genes, for schizophrenia, but, headlines for blogs or Twitter can’t be too long.

Of course, this is another example, also, of how the highly-touted idea of genetically personalized medicine is just as much just around the corner as are peaceful nuclear fusion power and fuel-cell cars in mass production.