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A Novel MYCN Variant Associated with Intellectual Disability Regulates Neuronal Development

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Acknowledgements

We express our deep gratitude to the patient and her family for their willingness to participate and sustained cooperation in the study. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81701494), the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning (2013ZYJB0015), and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (14411950402).

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  1. Xiuya Yu and Liyuan Hu have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 201102, China

    Xiuya Yu, Liyuan Hu, Xu Liu, Guodong Zhan, Mei Mei & Wenhao Zhou

  2. Key Laboratory of Birth Defects, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 201102, China

    Huijun Wang, Wenhao Zhou & Lin Yang

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China

    Xiaohua Zhang

  4. Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China

    Zilong Qiu

  5. Department of Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 201102, China

    Lin Yang

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Yu, X., Hu, L., Liu, X. et al. A Novel MYCN Variant Associated with Intellectual Disability Regulates Neuronal Development. Neurosci. Bull. 34, 854–858 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-018-0236-4

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