[ekaryotic]

>Exchanging a risk for cancer for a risk of schizophrenia is not a win-win situation But it can be though. Consider a population that works with carcinogens like coal. due to capitalist class structures, they cannot leave their occupation, so a gene that would increase their survivability would be a great help.

[dustbunny]

Schizophrenia is far more likely to prevent you from reproducing than cancer, because schizophrenia hits way earlier.

[FollowingTheDao]

Yes, this is what I was going to comment, and adding that it was funny they used a coal miner as an example since my family side that has the mood disorders were all coal miners in central PA.