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A genome-wide association study on common SNPs and rare CNVs in anorexia nervosa.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Sept 2011
Wang K, Zhang H, Bloss C S, Duvvuri V, Kaye W, Schork N J, Berrettini W, Hakonarson H
Abstract excerpt
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a mental illness with high mortality that most commonly afflicts adolescent female individuals. Clinical symptoms include chronic food refusal, weight loss and body image distortions. We carried out a genome-wide association study on 1033 AN cases and 3733 pediatric control subjects, all of whom were of European ancestry and were genotyped on the Illumina HumanHap610 platform (Illumina,...
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