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. 2008 Apr 24;58(2):165-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.007.

Schizophrenia: genome, interrupted

Rita M Cantor  1 , Daniel H Geschwind
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Schizophrenia: genome, interrupted

Rita M Cantor et al. Neuron. .

Abstract

Structural chromosomal variation is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to human diseases, particularly those of neurodevelopment, such as autism. A current paper makes a significant advance to schizophrenia genetics by establishing an association with rare copy number variants (CNV), which are over-represented in neurodevelopmental genes.

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