Acacia Fernandes Lacerda de Carvalho, Esmeralda Santos Alves, Paula Monique Leite Pitanga, Erlane Marques Ribeiro, Maria Juliana Rodovalho Doriqui, Maria Betânia Pereira Toralles, Bianca Arcaro Topázio, Jéssica Fernandes Dos Santos, Renata Lúcia Leite Ferreira de Lima, Leslie Domenici Kulikowski, Angelina Xavier Acosta
Intellectual disability (ID) is considered a common neuropsychiatric disorder that affects up to 3% of the population. The etiologic origin of ID may be genetic, environmental, and multifactorial. Chromosomopathies are relatively common among the genetic causes of ID, especially in the most severe cases and those associated with dysmorphic features. Currently, the application of new molecular cytogenetics technologies has increasingly allowed the identification of microdeletions, microduplications, and unbalanced translocations as causes of ID...
June 2024: Journal of Pediatric Genetics