The clinical significance of small copy number variants in neurodevelopmental disorders

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 677-688

  Asadollahi, Reza ^a   Oneda, Beatrice ^a   Joset, Pascal ^a   Azzarello Burri, Silvia ^a   Bartholdi, Deborah ^a   Steindl, Katharina ^a   Vincent, Marie ^a   Cobilanschi, Joana ^a   Sticht, Heinrich ^b   Baldinger, Rosa ^a   Reissmann, Regina ^a   Sudholt, Irene ^a   Thiel, Christian T ^b   Ekici, Arif B ^b   Reis, André ^b   Bijlsma, Emilia K ^c   Andrieux, Joris ^d   Dieux, Anne ^d   FitzPatrick, David ^e   Ritter, Susanne ^f   Baumer, Alessandra ^a   Latal, Beatrice ^f   Plecko, Barbara ^f   Jenni, Oskar G ^f   Rauch, Anita ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911387083     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102588     Document Type: Article

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