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Research review: Polygenic methods and their application to psychiatric traits.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Oct 2014
Wray Naomi R, Lee Sang Hong, Mehta Divya, Vinkhuyzen Anna A E, Dudbridge Frank, Middeldorp Christel M
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BACKGROUND: Despite evidence from twin and family studies for an important contribution of genetic factors to both childhood and adult onset psychiatric disorders, identifying robustly associated specific DNA variants has proved challenging. In the pregenomics era the genetic architecture (number, frequency and effect size of risk variants) of complex genetic disorders was unknown. Empirical evidence for the...
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