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Evaluating the role of common risk variation in the recurrence risk of schizophrenia in multiplex schizophrenia families.
Translational psychiatry - 21 Jul 2022
Ahangari Mohammad, Gentry Amanda E, Nguyen Tan-Hoang, Kirkpatrick Robert, Verrelli Brian C, Bacanu Silviu-Alin, Kendler Kenneth S, Webb Bradley T, Riley Brien P
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Multiplex families have higher recurrence risk of schizophrenia compared to the families of sporadic cases, but the source of this increased recurrence risk is unknown. We used schizophrenia genome-wide association study data (N = 156,509) to construct polygenic risk scores (PRS) in 1005 individuals from 257 multiplex schizophrenia families, 2114 ancestry-matched sporadic cases, and 2205 population controls, to...
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