TITLE: Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights
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1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 2Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 3David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 4Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 5Department of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 6Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. 7Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. 8Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States. 9Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 10Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 11Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston,
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