Genome-wide association study results for educational attainment aid in identifying genetic heterogeneity of schizophrenia

Educational attainment and schizophrenia have a negative phenotypic relationship but show positive genetic correlation. Here, the authors study genetic dependence between the two traits and find that multiple genes have pleiotropic effects on both without a systematic pattern of sign concordance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: V. Bansal, M. Mitjans, C. A. P. Burik, R. K. Linnér, A. Okbay, C. A. Rietveld, M. Begemann, S. Bonn, S. Ripke, R. de Vlaming, M. G. Nivard, H. Ehrenreich, P. D. Koellinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05510-z

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