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Official Journal of the Human Genome Organisation

Table 2 Rare CNVs associated with disease

From: Implications of copy number variation in people with chromosomal abnormalities: potential for greater variation in copy number state may contribute to variability of phenotype

Disease

Chromosomal locus

Genes

Risk-associated copy number change

Reference

Parkinson’s disease

4q22.1

SNCA

Triplication (4 copies)

Singleton et al. (2003)

Autosomal dominant early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease

21q21

APP

Duplication (3 copies)

Rovelet-Lecrux et al. (2006)

Hereditary pancreatitis

7q34

PRSS1 and PRSS2

Triplication (4 copies)

Le Marechal et al. (2006)

Autism

Multiple

Multiple

Deletions and duplications

Sebat et al. (2007) and Glessner et al. (2009)

Bipolar disorder

3q13.3

GSK3β

Duplication

Lachman et al. (2007)

Schizophrenia

Multiple

Multiple

Deletions and duplications

Xu et al. (2008) and Walsh et al. (2008)

Tetralogy of fallot

Multiple

Multiple

Deletions and duplications

Greenway et al. (2009)

Obesity

Multiple

Multiple

Deletions and duplications

Bochukova et al. (2010)

16p11.2

Multiple

Deletion

Walter et al. (2010)