A comparative study of the neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive phenotype in two microdeletion syndromes: velocardiofacial (22q11.2 deletion) and Williams (7q11.23 deletion) syndromes.

doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2013.07.001

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A comparative study of the neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive phenotype in two microdeletion syndromes: velocardiofacial (22q11.2 deletion) and Williams (7q11.23 deletion) syndromes.

European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 May 2014

Zarchi O, Diamond A, Weinberger R, Abbott D, Carmel M, Frisch A, Michaelovsky E, Gruber R, Green T, Weizman A, Gothelf D

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PURPOSE: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) and Williams syndrome (WS) are common neurogenetic microdeletion syndromes. The aim of the present study was to compare the neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive phenotypes of 22q11.2DS and WS. METHODS: Forty-five individuals with 22q11.2DS, 24 with WS, 22 with idiopathic developmental disability (DD) and 22 typically developing (TD) controls were compared for the...

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