Abstract
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe chronic mental disease. The current body of evidence suggests that it is a multifactorial disease with genetic and environmental factors, leading to an altered neurodevelopment. Ndel1 (nuclear-distribution element-like 1) is an oligopeptidade that binds to Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene product, which has been largely studied as a SCZ vulnerabili…