Article
Copy-number variations associated with neuropsychiatric conditions.
Nature - 16 Oct 2008
Cook Edwin H, Scherer Stephen W
Abstract excerpt
Neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia have long been attributed to genetic alterations, but identifying the genes responsible has proved challenging. Microarray experiments have now revealed abundant copy-number variation--a type of variation in which stretches of DNA are duplicated, deleted and sometimes rearranged--in the human population. Genes affected by copy-number variation are good...
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