[New directions in psychiatric genetics: Genome-wide association studies, polygenic risk score and cross-disorder analysis].

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The field of psychiatric genetics investigates the genetic background of psychiatric disorders. In a broader sense, this discipline aims to understand the molecular pathways underlying psychopathology, therefore, it is also referred to as molecular psychiatry. The most important question of this field was originally the following: What type of inheritance is responsible for the overrepresentation of psychiatric...

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