CNV analysis was completed to identify deletions and duplications present within our patients. By using a virtual “genotyping” step whereby individual CNV segment probe ratios were converted into z-scores, a distribution of median z-scores was generated, outliers of which were considered to be true CNVs. In doing so, we better filtered out common artifacts and false-positive CNVs and generated a list of CNVs unbiased by previous genetic studies of SCZD.
