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Chunk #32 — Glossary

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Polygenic risk scores in psychiatry: Will they be useful for clinicians?
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Heterogeneous: Genetic heterogeneity can be defined as mutations or risk variants at two or more genetic loci that produce the same or similar phenotypes. A heterogeneous disorder is a disorder which can be caused by mutations at two or more loci but with the same clinical presentation. In the context of polygenic disease, different combinations of variants in different genes may result in the same or similar clinical presentation.