Benefits and pitfalls encountered in psychiatric genetic association studies.

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The genetic association strategy is currently being applied to a number of psychiatric phenotypes including disease vulnerability, personality variation and clinical response to psychotropic drugs. Association studies offer the prospect of identification of the specific alleles that confer significant effects on clinical phenotype. However, it should be noted that this strategy has additional advantages as well...

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