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Mosaic Brain Aneuploidy in Mental Illnesses: An Association of Low-level post-zygotic Aneuploidy with Schizophrenia and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders
17 Jul 2017
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BACKGROUND: Postzygotic chromosomal variation in neuronal cells is hypothesized to make a substantial contribution to the etiology and pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the role of somatic genome instability and mosaic genome variations in common mental illnesses is a matter of conjecture. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To estimate the pathogenic burden of somatic chromosomal mutations, we determined...
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