Because genes are major determinants of psychiatric disorders, our community is hoping
that, as in many other branches of medicine, 1 molecular genetics will lead to important …

Molecular genetic research, building on genetic epidemiology, has provided the field of
psychiatry with a host of exciting advances. It is now clear beyond any reasonable doubt that …

Ten years ago it was widely expected that the genetic basis of common disease would be
resolved by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), large-scale studies in which the …

The genetic bases of neuropsychiatric disorders are beginning to yield to scientific inquiry.
Genome-wide studies of copy number variation (CNV) have given rise to a new …

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Shields (1). They proposed, following on from the seminal work of Falconer (2), that what is
inherited is not so much a disorder as a liability to disorder contributed to by multiple genetic …

Abstract The XVI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, sponsored by the International
Society of Psychiatric Genetics took place in Osaka, Japan, October 2008. Approximately …

Specific copy number variants (CNVs) have been robustly associated with intellectual
disability, autism, and schizophrenia. Most of the focus in the literature has been on …

In this issue of Biological Psychiatry, genomic analysis of patients with neuropsychiatric
disease reveals the presence of rare copy number variants (CNVs) in about 2% of the …

The subjective and symptomatic basis of psychiatric diagnoses—coupled with high rates of
comorbidity, clinical heterogeneity, and the overwhelming complexity of the human brain …