Genetic association study in psychiatry: analytical evaluation and a recommendation.

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Recent analysis of the candidate gene, association study for psychiatric disorders have concluded that most statistically significant results are likely to be false positives because there are a large number of potential candidate loci and a low a priori probability that a given candidate locus will in fact be trait relevant. Hence, it was recommended that the alpha level (P level) be lowered for association...

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