How can genetics help understand the relationship between cognitive dysfunction and schizophrenia?

Despite the consistent finding that cognitive dysfunction is a core characteristic of schizophrenia ( SCZ ), little is known about the underlying pathophysiology. Recent progress in human genetics, driven by large genome‐wide association studies ( GWAS ), has provided new data about the genetic architecture of complex human traits, including cognition and SCZ . Novel analytical tools have provided unprecedented opportunities to leverage the...