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1Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Abstract:
A genetic informed approach sheds new light on the biology of congenital hydrocephalus (CH), on which previous knowledge of the genetic background is scanty. In this issue, Furey et al. (2018) discover that variants in four genes associated with neurogenesis are implicated in CH.
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