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Genetic correlations between subcortical brain volumes and psychiatric disorders.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 May 2020
Ohi Kazutaka, Shimada Takamitsu, Kataoka Yuzuru, Yasuyama Toshiki, Kawasaki Yasuhiro, Shioiri Toshiki, Thompson Paul M
Abstract excerpt
Psychiatric disorders as well as subcortical brain volumes are highly heritable. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for these traits have been performed. We investigated the genetic correlations between five psychiatric disorders and the seven subcortical brain volumes and the intracranial volume from large-scale GWASs by linkage disequilibrium score regression. We revealed weak overlaps between...
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