Chunk #36 — Glossary

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Polygenic risk scores in psychiatry: Will they be useful for clinicians?

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Risk allele (or risk variant): A risk allele is defined as a gene variant that is more commonly found in cases than controls but is not observed exclusively in either group. This is in contrast to a mutation, which has a one-to-one relationship to disease, and is described as disease-causing.