Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1060-1068 , November 2009

Psychiatric Disorders and Intellectual Functioning Throughout Development in Velocardiofacial (22q11.2 Deletion) Syndrome

,Accepted 9 July 2009.

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 This work was funded by the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award of the March of Dimes (grant no. 5-FY06-590), National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award, and the National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel, founded by the Charles E. Smith family (D.G.). Data collection in Geneva was supported by a Swiss National Fund for Research to SE (PP00B-102864), as well as grants from the Eagle Foundation, the NARSAD, and the Fondation Handicap Mental & Société.The authors thank Lea Matasci and Catherine Pasca for the time and energy they put into organizing and sorting the Geneva data.This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Carl Feinstein in this issue.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60253-7

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181b76683

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1060-1068 , November 2009

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