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Nature Genetics 40, 1042–1044 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng0908-1042

Psychiatric genetics gets a boost

Brion S Maher , Brien P Riley & Kenneth S Kendler

The era of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) began with a number of successes in identifying new susceptibility genes for several complex biomedical disorders. Early results for psychiatric disorders were less clear.