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No evidence that common genetic risk variation is shared between schizophrenia and autism.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Vorstman Jacob A S, Anney Richard J L, Derks Eske M, Gallagher Louise, Gill Michael, de Jonge Maretha V, van Engeland Herman, Kahn René S, Ophoff Roel A
Abstract excerpt
The similarity between aspects of the clinical presentation of schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) suggests that elements of the biological etiology may also be shared between these two disorders. Recently, an increasing number of rare, mostly structural genetic variants are reported to increase the risk of both schizophrenia and ASD. We hypothesized that given this evidence for a shared genetic...
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