Adopted Children & Schizophrenia

During this week's reading about schizophrenia, the text covered many concepts such as the disorder and the actual diagnosis of schizophrenia, demographic data, and prenatal environmental factors. The section I was most interested in was about the children who are adopted and still develop schizophrenia. It is logical that such a severe and complex mental disorder should have some genetic factors that contribute in being diagnosed with this illness yet researchers still have not found which gene it is to balme. My concern was what if a child is adopted and grew up with warm, loving parents and had lots of friends, in a good home, but still was later diagnosed with this disorder? It makes a little sense that maybe the environment the child grew up in may contribute to decreasing the chances of being diagnosed with schizophrenia. But according to the table in section 15.2, Figure 15.11, it clearly shows that children with schizophrenic mothers who are adopted into nonschizophrenic families still have the same chance as dizygotic twins raised in the same environment to be diagnosed with this mental disorder. I think the nature versus nurture debate may come into play with a situation like this one. Environment may play some role, but an unknown gene has the authority with this complex disorder. I was very intrigued with this information that I needed to know more about it and how is it that a healthy nonschizophrenic environment for adopted children still has no avoidance from this illness. I found an article explaining my questions and more. This in depth article about Schizophrenia explaining several researches about twins, influences from environment, and even shows tables depicting the information found from different studies.