Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference.
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Nat Genet. 2024 Feb;56(2):222-233. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01596-4. Epub 2024 Jan 4.
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