HLA-C and schizophrenia: Variation in immune-related genes has been linked to an increased risk for developing schizophrenia, including genes within the major histocompatibility molecule (MHC) locus (Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Study [GWAS] Consortium, 2011) and genes encoding specific inflammatory cytokines (Bocchio Chiavetto et al., 2002; Schwarz et al., 2006, 2014).