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. 2021 Mar 11;144(7):1943–1957. doi: 10.1093/brain/awab096

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Top-down versus bottom-up approaches. The genetic-first, bottom-up approach (right) can build models/signatures from a lower level in the hierarchy (e.g. intermediate brain phenotype), and then asks questions about how such low-level models can explain observations higher up in the hierarchy (clinical manifestations).