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Sex effects on DNA methylation affect discovery in epigenome-wide association study of schizophrenia.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Aug 2024
Tesfaye Markos, Spindola Leticia M, Stavrum Anne-Kristin, Shadrin Alexey, Melle Ingrid, Andreassen Ole A, Le Hellard Stephanie
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Sex differences in the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of schizophrenia are well-known; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain unclear. Further, the potential advantages of sex-stratified meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) of schizophrenia have not been investigated. Here, we performed sex-stratified EWAS meta-analyses to investigate whether sex...
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