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Genome-wide strategies for discovering genetic influences on cognition and cognitive disorders: methodological considerations.
Cognitive neuropsychiatry - 1 Jan 2009
Potkin Steven G, Turner Jessica A, Guffanti Guia, Lakatos Anita, Torri Federica, Keator David B, Macciardi Fabio
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INTRODUCTION: Genes play a well-documented role in determining normal cognitive function. This paper focuses on reviewing strategies for the identification of common genetic variation in genes that modulate normal and abnormal cognition with a genome-wide association scan (GWAS). GWASs make it possible to survey the entire genome to discover important but unanticipated genetic influences. METHODS: The use of a...
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