«Malaspina has found that about a quarter of all people that develop schizophrenia may owe their symptoms to spontaneous genetic mutations in paternal sperm. (schizophrenia.com)
But other scientists cautioned that other explanations beside spontaneous genetic mutation could also account for the study's results.For example, said Dr. Ann Pulver, director of the epidemiology and genetics program in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, «It may be that the fathers of schizophrenics have unusual characteristics that delay reproduction.» (schizophrenia.com)
Kirlee, as a supposed distantly related cat with the same spontaneous genetic mutation, would be a good outcross. (cfa.org)