Evidence that polygenic risk for psychotic disorder is expressed in the domain of neurodevelopment, emotion regulation and attribution of salience
van Os J, van der Steen Y, Islam M, Gülöksüz S, Rutten B, Simons C. Evidence that polygenic risk for psychotic disorder is expressed in the domain of neurodevelopment, emotion regulation and attribution of salience. Psychological Medicine 2017, 47: 2421-2437. PMID: 28436345, DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717000915.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPolygenic risk scoresHealthy comparison subjectsPsychotic disordersAttribution of salienceAffective episodesComparison subjectsIntelligence quotientTotal scorePolygenic riskFirst-degree relativesElevated genetic riskLower intelligence quotientManic episodesHealthy relativesRisk scoreNeurodevelopmental alterationsDepression subscaleLifetime ratesSimilar associationPsychosis riskFloor effectsGenetic riskPositive subscalePsychosis phenotypeDisorders