Epidemiological and clinical research as a guide in the search for risk factors and biological markers

Contribution of Genetic Epidemiologic Research to Psychiatry

“…Further more. he noted that in spite of promising leads in neurobiology and molecular genetics, no validated diagnostic marker and no laboratory test is yet available for its replicable identification [7].The recent integration of epidemiology and genetics is a major advance in the search for the ultimate causes, mechanisms, and treatment of psychiatric disease, as will be described below. In a recent editorial on the future of psychiatric epidemiology.…”