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SUBMITTER: Bloom RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3650833 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bloom Rachael J RJ Kähler Anna K AK Collins Ann L AL Chen Guanhua G Cannon Tyrone D TD Hultman Christina C Sullivan Patrick F PF
Schizophrenia research 20130316 1-3
Copy number variation plays a clear role in the etiology of many psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. We performed array-CGH to look for copy number variants between five pairs of monozygotic twins discordant for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Our study found no differences in copy number variants between the sets of twins. Although alluring, realistic accounting for heterogeneity and chimerism highlights the technological limitations in studying monozygotic twins discordant fo ...[more]