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Project Details

 

DO PRS (POLYGENIC RISK SCORES) FOR SQUIZOPHRENIA, BIPOLAR DISORDER AND MAJOR DEPRESSION DISTINGUISH AFFECTIVE-PSYCHOSIS DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES?

Lead Applicant Name :
Victoria Rodriguez
Project Type :
Research
Approval Date :
22-Aug-2018
References :
Lay Summary :
A newly developed method called polygenic risk score (PRS) allow us summarise individual risks for an illness across associated genetic variants into a quantitative score. The objective of the project is to test whether PRSs for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Major Depression Disorder calculated from Bioresource data distinguish between categorical diagnoses extracted from clinical notes <br/>