Psychiatric genetics gets a boost (original) (raw)

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Defining the molecular nature of the genetic risk of psychiatric disorders has been notoriously difficult. Now, a flurry of genome-wide association studies for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder provides preliminary evidence for replicated signals.

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Figure 1: Characteristics of variants across the allelic spectrum.

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  1. Brien P. Riley and Kenneth S. Kendler are at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and the Departments of Psychiatry and Human and Molecular Genetics, Brion S. Maher, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA. kendler@vcu.edu,
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