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The role of trans-acting factors in the pathogenesis of common psychiatric disorders.
Epigenetics - 1 Dec 2026
Peedicayil Jacob, Grayson Dennis R
Abstract excerpt
According to the omnigenic model for the inheritance of common traits proposed by Jonathan Pritchard's group in 2017, there are a very large number of genetic variants underlying common traits spread across the genome. Causal variants are of two types: core genes that have direct roles in disease pathogenesis that contribute only a small amount to total heritability and peripheral genes that are much more in...
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