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A replication study of schizophrenia-related rare copy number variations in a Han Southern Chinese population.
Hereditas - 1 Jan 2017
Yuan Jianmin, Hu Jianlin, Li Zhiqiang, Zhang Fuquan, Zhou Dexiang, Jin Chunhui
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BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a common, complex and severe psychiatric disorder associated with many different genetic and environmental risk factors. Evidence from genetic studies has revealed the role of genome structural variations, specifically copy number variants (CNVs), in the etiology of SCZ. Nevertheless, the occurrence of CNVs and their relation to SCZ has remained relatively unstudied in the...
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