Article
Distinguishing different psychiatric disorders using DDx-PRS.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2026
Peyrot Wouter J, Panagiotaropoulou Georgia, Olde Loohuis Loes M, Adams Mark J, Andreassen Ole A, Awasthi Swapnil, Forstner Andreas J, Ge Tian, McIntosh Andrew M, Mitchell Brittany L, Mullins Niamh, O'Connell Kevin S, Penninx Brenda W J H, Posthuma Danielle, Ripke Stephan, Ruderfer Douglas M, Uffelmann Emil, Vilhjalmsson Bjarni J, Zhu Zhihong, Smoller Jordan W, Price Alkes L
Abstract excerpt
Despite great progress on case-control polygenic prediction, an unmet need remains for a method that genetically distinguishes clinically related disorders (e.g., schizophrenia (SCZ) versus bipolar disorder (BIP) versus major depressive disorder (MDD) versus controls). We introduce differential diagnosis-polygenic risk score (DDx-PRS), which jointly estimates the posterior probabilities of each diagnostic...
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- Humans
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Bipolar Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
