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Chunk #16 — What polygenic risk scores can do now

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Polygenic risk scores in psychiatry: Will they be useful for clinicians?
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• Provide information about phenotypic correlations 3, 5, 25, 26. Phenotypes that are correlated with a diagnosis because of overlapping genetic causes would be expected to be correlated with the PRS for a diagnosis as well. Those that are correlated because of environmental exposures or consequences of treatment would show low PRS correlation.