Am I reading the paper incorrectly? The finding was the opposite (i.e. that increased NeanderScore is correlated with reduced schizophrenia diagnoses/symptoms),

Am I reading the paper incorrectly? The finding was the opposite (i.e. that increased NeanderScore is correlated with reduced schizophrenia diagnoses/symptoms), wasn’t it? The inspiration for the study appears to be to explore why humans do and animals don’t appear to have schizophrenia, and assuming Neanderthals are closer to animals. I agree about calling it conjecture though. The finding had marginal p-values in a study that appears to be hiding its sample size (it doesn’t disclose the ratio of schizophrenia cases to controls in its four case-control datasets) and so is quite possibly underpowered.