However, quantitative examination of immunoreactive puncta within the auditory cortex demonstrated that the number of puncta for synaptophysin or vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 was minimally altered or remained unchanged in schizophrenia (Sweet et al., 2007; Moyer et al., 2013). The gene discussed is SLC17A6; the disease is schizophrenia.