Subcortical Brain Alterations in Carriers of Genomic Copy Number Variants

Kuldeep Kumar1, Claudia Modenato1, Clara Moreau1

  • 1Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal (Kumar, Harvey, Huguet, Jean-Louis, Douard, Martin, Younis, Tamer, Dumas, Jacquemont); Mila-Quebec AI Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal (Dumas); Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie, Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Modenato, Martin-Brevet, Lippé, Draganski), and Service des Troubles du Spectre de l'Autisme et Apparentés (Maillard, Rodriguez-Herreros, Pain), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions, Institut Pasteur, and Université de Paris, CNRS UMR 3571, Paris (Moreau); Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles (Kushan, Bearden); School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (Silva, Linden); Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (Silva, van den Bree, Owen, Hall), Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine (van den Bree, Owen, Hall), and Neuroscience and Mental Health Innovation Institute (van den Bree, Linden, Hall), Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K.; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany (Draganski); Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey (Ching, Moreau, Thompson); Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Schultz, Almasy); Lifespan Brain Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine, Philadelphia (Schultz, Almasy); Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Almasy); Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Tommy Fuss Center for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston (Glahn); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, N.C. (Isaev); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland (Ragothaman); Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta (Turner); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago (Alpert, Wang); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus (Wang); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford (Ho); Orygen, National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, Australia, and Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Schmaal); NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and University of Oslo, Oslo (Sønderby, Andreassen); Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo (Sønderby); K.G. Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo (Sønderby, Andreassen); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (Gutman).

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