According to Bernard et al. (2010) and Lee et al. (2013), various psychiatric disorders have been linked to developmental disorders and have shown to be heritable. Although developmental disorders and psychiatric disorders are different in terms of health progression and brain development, there appears to be a common link in genomic data between schizophrenia and autism. The variant commonality may not be significant enough to say that they are the same and only produce different phenotypic traits, but there is probable evidence in saying that autism may not only be a form of schizophrenia, but that it has the potential to lead individuals, usually young children with the diagnoses, to one day develop schizophrenia. The observational article by …show more content…
A spectrum disorder and genomic data were used to make predictions on each condition, along with various models. The models compared and predicted the phenotypic traits and developments between autism and schizophrenia. The results of the studies inferred that variants at seven various loci were analyzed and only five of the seven resulted in an inference of similarity between schizophrenia and autism. Of the five remaining loci, many were deleted in various individuals containing the two separate disorders. Individuals with schizophrenia displayed deletions in some regions, whereas in autism, the regions were completely different from the ones in schizophrenia. This inferred that despite the two disorders displaying the same variants, they are incredibly different when it comes to deletions. As to the development of individuals with these disorders, schizophrenia persons typically have a human brain that is under-developed in neurotransmission, whereas in autism, there appears to be an overdevelopment of