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Polygenic Risk for Depression Increases Risk of Ischemic Stroke
8 Feb 2018
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Although depression is a risk factor for stroke in large prospective studies, it is unknown whether these conditions have a shared genetic basis. METHODS: We applied a polygenic risk score (PRS) for major depressive disorder derived from European ancestry analyses by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium to a genome-wide association study of ischemic stroke in the Stroke Genetics Network of...
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