The research team working on psychosis research comes from the University of North Carolina. The research findings from this study are available in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects around 1% of adolescents and young adults. Even though it affects a small part of the population the disorder is highly debilitating for patients. This is because it can affect an individual’s social and emotional well-being and cause more permanent issues like psychosis.
Researchers working on this study discovered that they can use a polygenic risk score (PRS) to predict psychosis onset. Furthermore, they combine the results from the test with the data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Through this, they are able to determine a polygenic risk score that helps them predict when psychosis will occur. Also, with such tests, medical workers could make better plans for prevention and treatment.
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