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Genetic correlation, pleiotropy, and causal associations between substance use and psychiatric disorder.
Psychological medicine - 1 Apr 2022
Jang Seon-Kyeong, Saunders Gretchen, Liu MengZhen, Jiang Yu, Liu Dajiang J, Vrieze Scott
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BACKGROUND: Substance use occurs at a high rate in persons with a psychiatric disorder. Genetically informative studies have the potential to elucidate the etiology of these phenomena. Recent developments in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) allow new avenues of investigation. METHOD: Using results of GWAS meta-analyses, we performed a factor analysis of the genetic correlation structure, a genome-wide...
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