The figure summarizes how common-variant genetic risk is shared across 8 psychiatric disorders, using genome-wide genetic correlations calculated with linkage disequilibrium (LD) score regression.1 Polygenic risk for schizophrenia overlaps substantially with other disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, supporting shared biological vulnerability across diagnoses.1,2
FDR=false discovery rate.
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