“…Others investigated brain features such as cerebellar weight and pre-frontal cortex variations, levels of methylation in brain or blood tissues, associations between epigenetic processes and smoking, age, medication use and physical activity, studies of x-chromosome linkage, and paternal age and its association with schizophrenia diagnoses (e.g. DeLisi et al, 2000;Glatt et al, 2011;Melas et al, 2012;Naserbakht, Ahmadkhaniha, Mokri, & Smith, 2011). propensities to receive a schizophrenia diagnosis produced a mixed picture within which the few significant variations identified were attributed throughout to epigenetic processes, but without any direct test of these processes ever being conducted.…”