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Independent estimation of the frequency of rare CNVs in the UK population confirms their role in schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Mar 2012
Grozeva Detelina, Conrad Donald F, Barnes Chris P, Hurles Matthew, Owen Michael J, O'Donovan Michael C, Craddock Nick, Kirov George
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BACKGROUND: Several large, rare chromosomal copy number variants (CNVs) have recently been shown to increase risk for schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, ADHD, learning difficulties and epilepsy. AIMS: We wanted to examine the frequencies of these schizophrenia-associated variants in a large sample of individuals with non-psychiatric illnesses to better understand the robustness...
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