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SUBMITTER: Wendt FR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7254587 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wendt Frank R FR Pathak Gita A GA Tylee Daniel S DS Goswami Aranyak A Polimanti Renato R
Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) 20200101
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been performed for many psychiatric disorders and revealed a complex polygenic architecture linking mental and physical health phenotypes. Psychiatric diagnoses are often heterogeneous, and several layers of trait heterogeneity may contribute to detection of genetic risks per disorder or across multiple disorders. In this review, we discuss these heterogeneities and their consequences on the discovery of risk loci using large-scale genetic data. We pri ...[more]