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Genetic variation links creativity to psychiatric disorders

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Epidemiological studies and anecdotal evidence show overlap between psychiatric disorders and creativity, but why? A new study uses genome-wide association data from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to show that genetics are part of the explanation.

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Figure 1: Estimated probability of belonging to national artistic societies or having an artistic profession as a function of genetic risk scores.

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  1. Matthew C. Keller is in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.,

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  2. Peter M. Visscher is at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The Translation Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,

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Keller, M., Visscher, P. Genetic variation links creativity to psychiatric disorders. Nat Neurosci 18, 928–929 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4047

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