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Letter

Nature Genetics 40, 880–885 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng.162

Strong association of de novo copy number mutations with sporadic schizophrenia

Bin Xu , J Louw Roos , Shawn Levy , E J van Rensburg , Joseph A Gogos & Maria Karayiorgou

Schizophrenia is an etiologically heterogeneous psychiatric disease, which exists in familial and nonfamilial (sporadic) forms. Here, we examine the possibility that rare de novo copy number (CN) mutations with relatively high penetrance contribute to the genetic component of schizophrenia.