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A cross-disorder PRS-pheWAS of 5 major psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank.
PLoS genetics - 1 May 2020
Leppert Beate, Millard Louise A C, Riglin Lucy, Davey Smith George, Thapar Anita, Tilling Kate, Walton Esther, Stergiakouli Evie
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Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable and associated with a wide variety of social adversity and physical health problems. Using genetic liability (rather than phenotypic measures of disease) as a proxy for psychiatric disease risk can be a useful alternative for research questions that would traditionally require large cohort studies with long-term follow up. Here we conducted a hypothesis-free phenome-wide...
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