The researchers also found that these copy
number variants occurred more frequently in genes involved in the function of synapses, the connections between brain cells that transmit chemical messages.
Not exact matches
With its large sample size, this study had the power to find copy
number variants with large effects that
occur in more than 0.1 percent of schizophrenia cases.
This is to accommodate small
variants that
occur at sites of copy
number variation as well as in samples that are not pure: for example, due to tumor heterogeneity or sample mosaicism.