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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 73-90Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103366
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- FEDER through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade-COMPETE
- Portuguese national funds through the FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PIC/IC/83026/2007, PIC/IC/83013/2007, SFRH/BDINT/51549/2011]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [2021.06912.BD, PIC/IC/83026/2007, PIC/IC/83013/2007, SFRH/BDINT/51549/2011] Funding Source: FCT
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Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs) encompass a spectrum of neuropsychiatric manifestations. Chromosomal regions 1q21.1, 3q29, 15q11.2, 15q13.3, 16p11.2, 16p13.1 and 22q11 harbour rare but recurrent CNVs that have been uncovered as being important risk factors for several of these disorders. These rearrangements may underlie a broad phenotypical spectrum, ranging from normal development, to learning problems, intellectual disability (ID), epilepsy and psychiatric diseases, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and schizophrenia (SZ). The highly increased risk of developing neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with some of these CNVs makes them an unavoidable element in the clinical context in paediatrics, neurology and psychiatry. However, and although finding these risk loci has been the goal of neuropsychiatric genetics for many years, the translation of this recent knowledge into clinical practice has not been trivial. In this article, we will: (1) review the state of the art on recurrent CNVs associated with NDs, namely ASD, ID, epilepsy and SZ; (2) discuss the models used to dissect the underlying neurobiology of disease, (3) discuss how this knowledge can be used in clinical practice.
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