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Historically, most psychiatric genetics research studies were undertaken in European-ancestry individuals. In the last decade, with the support of organizations such as the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, ongoing large-scale psychiatric genetics studies have been conducted globally, focused on non-European ancestry populations. One such initiative is the Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations (NeuroGAP). The NeuroGAP, the largest psychiatric genomics study conducted in Africa, aims to expand our understanding of the genetic and environmental causes of various neuropsychiatric disorders through large-scale sample collection and analyses. Studies such as the NeuroGAP provide critical information for gene discovery and allow the identification of true disease-causal gene variants. Equally important to advancing …