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Somatic copy number variants in neuropsychiatric disorders.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2021
Maury Eduardo A, Walsh Christopher A
Abstract excerpt
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders, with rare-inherited and de novo CNVs (dnCNVs) having large effects on disease liability. Recent studies started exploring a class of dnCNVs that occur post-zygotically, and are therefore present in some but not all cells of the body. Analogous to conditional mutations in animal models, the presence of risk mutations in a fraction of...
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