A new genetic study, led by Hyejung Won, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Genetics and the UNC Neuroscience Center, and Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, the Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics, has successfully delineated the functional consequences of genetic variants into two groups. Their findings, which were published in Cell, suggest that pleiotropic variants may be optimal targets for treatment, due to their extended roles in development and sensitivity to change.
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