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Recently evolved human-specific methylated regions are enriched in schizophrenia signals
2017-03-02
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<h4>Background</h4> One explanation for the persistence of schizophrenia despite the reduced fertility of patients is that it is a by-product of recent human evolution. This hypothesis is supported by evidence suggesting that recently-evolved genomic regions in humans are involved in the genetic risk for schizophrenia. Using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia and 11 ot...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ac223838-56f1-5383-9a44-7f3cff041296
- DOI
- 10.1101/113175