Assessing the utility of intermediate phenotypes for genetic mapping of psychiatric disease.

Intermediate phenotypes are traits positioned somewhere between genetic variation and disease. They represent a target for attempts to find disease-associated genetic variants and elucidation of mechanisms. Psychiatry has been particularly enamoured with intermediate phenotypes, due to uncertainty a...

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Main Authors: Flint, J, Timpson, N, Munafò, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014