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Commentary| Volume 93, ISSUE 1, P6-7, January 01, 2023

Direct and Indirect Effects in Trio Studies: You Don’t Know What You’re Missing

  • Dongmei Yu
    Affiliations
    Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  • Jeremiah M. Scharf
    Correspondence
    Address correspondence to Jeremiah M. Scharf, M.D., Ph.D.
    Affiliations
    Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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