Question 24

(Multiple Choice)

The observation that schizophrenia is associated with duplications of a certain copy number variant (CNV),while autism spectrum disorders are associated with deletions of the same CNV,suggests that _____.


A) CNV mutations are present in all psychiatric disorders
B) both disorders have identical phenotypes
C) both disorders have an environmental component
D) both disorders share common developmental pathways 
E) neither disorder has a genetic component

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