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Using Genetics to Examine a General Liability to Childhood Psychopathology.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jul 2020
Riglin Lucy, Thapar Ajay K, Leppert Beate, Martin Joanna, Richards Alexander, Anney Richard, Davey Smith George, Tilling Kate, Stergiakouli Evie, Lahey Benjamin B, O'Donovan Michael C, Collishaw Stephan, Thapar Anita
Abstract excerpt
Psychiatric disorders show phenotypic as well as genetic overlaps. There are however also marked developmental changes throughout childhood. We investigated the extent to which, for a full range of early childhood psychopathology, a general "p" factor was explained by genetic liability, as indexed by multiple different psychiatric polygenic risk scores (PRS) and whether these relationships altered with age. The...
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