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Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jun 2009
Webber Caleb, Hehir-Kwa Jayne Y, Nguyen Duc-Quang, de Vries Bert B A, Veltman Joris A, Ponting Chris P
Abstract excerpt
Rare copy number variants (CNVs) are frequently associated with common neurological disorders such as mental retardation (MR; learning disability), autism, and schizophrenia. CNV screening in clinical practice is limited because pathological CNVs cannot be distinguished routinely from benign CNVs, and because genes underlying patients' phenotypes remain largely unknown. Here, we present a novel, statistically...
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