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From: Two patients walk into a clinic...a genomics perspective on the future of schizophrenia

Figure 2

Models of complex genetic etiology. Risk variants are grouped according to their frequency in the population (x-axis) and their penetrance (y-axis). The penetrance of a disease-causing mutation is the proportion of individuals with the mutation who exhibit clinical symptoms. Zones A and B indicate risk variation assayed in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and zone C indicates variants assayed by studies of copy number variation (CNV). Zone C also includes rare variants of intermediate penetrance that will be accessible to exomic and genomic sequencing (adapted from McCarthy et al. [36]).

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