Monogenic defects responsible for intellectual disability and related disorders

(Medical Xpress) -- For over 15 years, genome research has focussed – largely unsuccessfully – on the quest for common genetic risk factors for widespread diseases and conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, schizophrenia and cancer. One of the reasons for this is that many different genetic disorders can be hidden behind these diseases, and not uncommonly defects in individual genes are involved. However, most of these genetic defects are still unexplained.

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