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Copy number variation and psychiatric disease risk.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2012
Levy Rebecca J, Xu Bin, Gogos Joseph A, Karayiorgou Maria
Abstract excerpt
Psychiatric disorders are multifactorial in nature with complex genetic architecture. A number of recent studies, building upon earlier findings of copy number variants (CNVs) at the 22q11.2 locus, suggest that rare CNVs represent an important component of genetic heterogeneity in the etiology of complex psychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia. De novo CNVs are found with higher frequency among sporadic...
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