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A tipping point in neuropsychiatric genetics.
Neuron - 5 May 2021
McClellan Jon M, King Mary-Claire
Abstract excerpt
Severe neuropsychiatric disorders are so genetically heterogeneous that virtually every unrelated patient harbors different clinically significant alleles. By studying schizophrenia in the Ashkenazi Jewish founder population, Lencz and co-authors identified rare severe alleles each shared by a few patients. Experimental evaluation of an implicated protocadherin allele revealed failure to form homophilic cellular...
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