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Identification of the Genetic Cause for Childhood Disintegrative Disorder by Whole-Exome Sequencing

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This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program, China (XDB02050400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91432111), and the Shanghai Second Medical University—Institute of Neuroscience Research Center for Brain Disorders, China (2015NKX005). We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the brothers with CDD and their parents, without whom this study could not have been done. We also acknowledge members of the laboratories of Drs. Qiu Z, Du Y, and Wang Z for valuable discussions.

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  1. Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Zhu Wen, Shi-Bang Sun, Shun-Ying Yu & Ya-Song Du

  2. Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China

    Tian-Lin Cheng, Da-Zhi Yin, Zheng Wang & Zilong Qiu

  3. School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yi Zhang

  4. Euler Genomics, Beijing, 102206, China

    Yi Zhang

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Wen, Z., Cheng, TL., Yin, DZ. et al. Identification of the Genetic Cause for Childhood Disintegrative Disorder by Whole-Exome Sequencing. Neurosci. Bull. 33, 251–254 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-017-0119-0

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