Abstract
New study sheds light on genetic susceptibility to autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions
Author(s): News & ViewsResearchers at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada) successfully identified de novo and rare copy-number variations (CNVs) in 248 unrelated attention deficit– hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients using million-feature genotyping arrays, providing support for a role for rare CNVs in ADHD risk and reinforcing evidence for the existence of common underlying susceptibility genes for ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neuropsychiatric disorders.