Investigation of the genetic association between quantitative measures of psychosis and schizophrenia: a polygenic risk score analysis.

The presence of subclinical levels of psychosis in the general population may imply that schizophrenia is the extreme expression of more or less continuously distributed traits in the population. In a previous study, we identified five quantitative measures of schizophrenia (positive, negative, diso...

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Main Authors: Eske M Derks, Jacob A S Vorstman, Stephan Ripke, Rene S Kahn, Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genomic Consortium, Roel A Ophoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3382234?pdf=render