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Associations between polygenic risk for schizophrenia and brain function during probabilistic learning in healthy individuals.
Human brain mapping - 1 Feb 2016
Lancaster Thomas M, Ihssen Niklas, Brindley Lisa M, Tansey Katherine E, Mantripragada Kiran, O'Donovan Michael C, Owen Michael J, Linden David E J
Abstract excerpt
A substantial proportion of schizophrenia liability can be explained by additive genetic factors. Risk profile scores (RPS) directly index risk using a summated total of common risk variants weighted by their effect. Previous studies suggest that schizophrenia RPS predict alterations to neural networks that support working memory and verbal fluency. In this study, we apply schizophrenia RPS to fMRI data to...
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