haaretz.Com 2013Scientists Discover Gene That Predisposes Ashkenazi Jews to Schizophrenia. Israeli and American scientists have discovered a gene among Ashkenazi Jews that increases their chances of developing the mental disorder schizophrenia, as well schizoaffective disorder and manic depression.______________________We are dealing with a foreign European people who have their own unique mental illnesses and they have become a burden to the indigenous population of Palestine. Is it possible that it is because of these mental illnesses that the Ashkenazi believe something which is weird - that their origin is the Middle East and not Europe and yet absolutely nothing about the European Jews is Middle Eastern but very foreign to the Middle East!