Serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene variants associated with autism?

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2233-2238

  Klauck, Sabine M ^a   Poustka, Fritz ^b   Benner, Axel ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^c   Poustka, Annemarie ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; SEROTONIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030830590     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.13.2233     Document Type: Article

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