Review commentary highlights evolving roles for genetic counseling in psychiatric conditions, suggesting that copy number variant discoveries expand care beyond standard risk prediction.
In their timely review of recent important genetic findings in psychiatric disordersspecifically, common and rare copy number variants (CNVs) in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders-Gershon and Alliey-Rodriguez (1) propose that these findings "must lead to profound changes" in genetic counseling and "propose that genetic counseling is more than risk prediction.
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