One of the first pieces of evidence demonstrating the direct genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders was their association with specific, recurrent copy number variants (CNVs) -- large duplications or deletions of a chromonsome at a particular location.

This website will ultimately provide a comprehensive workflow for functional genomic analyses with relevance neuropsychiatric disease. The goal is to identify the biological & molecular pathways that contribute to highly heritable disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism spectrum disroders (ASD). The general principles were outlined in two recent reviews: