Article
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...
Topics
- Brain Diseases
- DNA Copy Number Variations
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genomics
- Humans
- Mental Disorders
- Mutation
- Risk Factors
