Healio (1/6, Herpen) reports, “Using polygenic risk scores to determine likelihood of parental bipolar disorder [BD] passing to offspring is promising but unproven,” researchers concluded after collecting and analyzing “data from 745 participants (336 parents, 409 children) enrolled in the Pittsburgh Biological Offspring Study, which included parents with BD I/II and their offspring, as well as parents without BD and their offspring.” The findings of the “community-based case-control longitudinal study” were published online Dec. 22 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Polygenic risk scores may be useful in finding bipolar disorder link in adults, offspring “Robert Herpen, Healio, January 6, 2022