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A correction for sample overlap in genome-wide association studies in a polygenic pleiotropy-informed framework

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4859-7

Published Online: 2018-06-25

Published Print: 2018-12

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LeBlanc, Marissa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2148-2814
Zuber, Verena

Thompson, Wesley K.

Andreassen, Ole A.

Frigessi, Arnoldo

Andreassen, Bettina Kulle
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Wellcome Trust (204623/Z/16/Z)

UK Medical Research Council (MC UU 00002/7)
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Received: 23 December 2017

Accepted: 6 June 2018

First Online: 25 June 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: We did not collect any new samples for this study. The Psychiatric Genetics Consortium data used here has been previously published [, ] and was collected in accordance with ethical regulations in the partner countries and as defined in original research publications (For schizophrenia see the Supplement of [] and for bipolar disorder see the supplement of []) The lead PI of each sample warranted that their protocol was approved by their local Ethical Committee. All subjects provided written informed consent. There were nearly 50 ethics committees that approved the contributed samples and these are listed in the Supplements of the original publications.

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