Does the difficulty in finding the genes responsible for mental illness reflect the complexity of the genetics or the poor definitions of psychiatric disorders? Alison Abbott reports.
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Abbott, A. Psychiatric genetics: The brains of the family. Nature 454, 154–157 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454154a
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