[article]
Titre : |
Editorial: Translational genetics of child psychopathology: a distant dream? |
Type de document : |
Texte imprimé et/ou numérique |
Auteurs : |
Barbara MAUGHAN, Auteur ; Edmund J. S. SONUGA-BARKE, Auteur |
Article en page(s) : |
p.1065-1067 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Translational genetics child psychopathology heritability genetic variant markers psychiatric genetics |
Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
Résumé : |
For decades now twin, family and adoption studies have pointed to a substantial role for genetic factors in risk for psychiatric disorder. Behaviour genetic studies are not, of course, designed to tell us about the ‘genetic architecture’ of disorders – the number of risk variants involved, their frequency, or their effects sizes – but their findings clearly suggest that given the high levels of heritability detected, identifying the gene variants involved could provide important pointers to aetiology, and might well have implications for treatment. In and of themselves heritability findings have little practical value as a basis for a translational genetics of psychiatric disorders. They cannot help us identify pathophysiological pathways that need to be targeted through therapeutic innovation or inform the sort of tailoring of treatments to individual biological ‘types’ to promote personalized medicine. To do these things we need to move from estimating heritability to identifying specific genetic markers implicating specific neuro-biological systems. |
En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12323 |
Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=238 |
in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 55-10 (October 2014) . - p.1065-1067
[article] Editorial: Translational genetics of child psychopathology: a distant dream? [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Barbara MAUGHAN, Auteur ; Edmund J. S. SONUGA-BARKE, Auteur . - p.1065-1067. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 55-10 (October 2014) . - p.1065-1067
Mots-clés : |
Translational genetics child psychopathology heritability genetic variant markers psychiatric genetics |
Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
Résumé : |
For decades now twin, family and adoption studies have pointed to a substantial role for genetic factors in risk for psychiatric disorder. Behaviour genetic studies are not, of course, designed to tell us about the ‘genetic architecture’ of disorders – the number of risk variants involved, their frequency, or their effects sizes – but their findings clearly suggest that given the high levels of heritability detected, identifying the gene variants involved could provide important pointers to aetiology, and might well have implications for treatment. In and of themselves heritability findings have little practical value as a basis for a translational genetics of psychiatric disorders. They cannot help us identify pathophysiological pathways that need to be targeted through therapeutic innovation or inform the sort of tailoring of treatments to individual biological ‘types’ to promote personalized medicine. To do these things we need to move from estimating heritability to identifying specific genetic markers implicating specific neuro-biological systems. |
En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12323 |
Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=238 |
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