No evidence of associations between genetic liability for schizophrenia and development of cannabis use disorder.
Carsten Rygaard HjorthøjMd Jamal UddinTheresa WimberleySøren DalsgaardDavid M HougaardAnders BørglumThomas WergeMerete NordentoftPublished in: Psychological medicine (2019)
The PRS for schizophrenia was not associated with CUD in controls or patients with other psychiatric disorders than schizophrenia. This speaks against the hypothesis that shared genetic vulnerability would explain the association between cannabis and schizophrenia.