Dissecting the phenotype in genome-wide association studies of psychiatric illness

^*The following international researchers are members of the Cross-Disorder Phenotype Group: Nick Craddock (UK), Kenneth Kendler (USA), Michael Neale (USA), John Nurnberger (USA), Shaun Purcell (USA), Marcella Rietschel (Germany), Roy Perlis (USA), Susan L. Santangelo (USA), Thomas Schulze (USA), Jordan W. Smoller (USA) and Anita Thapar (UK).

¹Nick Craddock, PhD, FRCPsych, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK;

²Kenneth Kendler, MD,

³Michael Neale, PhD, Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, and Departments of Psychiatry, and Human and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA;

⁴John Nurnberger, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA;

⁵Shaun Purcell, PhD, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;

⁶Marcella Rietschel, MD, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany;

⁷Roy Perlis, MD, Bipolar Clinical and Research Program, and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

⁸Susan L. Santangelo, ScD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Human Genetic Research, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

⁹Thomas Schulze, MD, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, and Unit on the Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, NIMH, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;

¹⁰Jordan W. Smoller, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

¹¹Anita Thapar, PhD, FRCPsych, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK