Functional outcomes of adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
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Neuropathologic features in adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22qDS) is the most common microdeletion syndrome in humans. Its multisystem manifestations include congenital anomalies and neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Structural neuroimaging shows various abnormalities, but no postmortem brain studies exist. We report neuropathologic findings in 3 individuals from a cohort of 100 adults with a confirmed 22q...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics in Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1098-3600,1530-0366
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2012.66