Etiologic heterogeneity, pleiotropy, and polygenicity in behaviorally defined intellectual and developmental disabilities

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA. oveatch@kumc.edu.
³ Department of Genetics and Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.

Editorial

Jessica B Girault et al. J Neurodev Disord. 2024.

. 2024 Mar 13;16(1):8.

doi: 10.1186/s11689-024-09526-z.

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA. oveatch@kumc.edu.
³ Department of Genetics and Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.

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