People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia from different populations around the world may share common genetic variants, according to a new Japanese study published in the journal Cell Reports.
Supporting previous work conducted with Caucasians, the researchers found that Japanese individuals with autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia also have overlapping copy number variations. A copy number variation (CNV) is when the number of copies of a particular gene varies...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/11/25/significant-genetic-overlap-found-between-schizophrenia-autism/138676.html
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