Identification of a novel gene on chromosome 7q11.2 interrupted by a translocation breakpoint in a pair of autistic twins

Genomics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-134

  Sultana, Razia ^a   Yu, Chang En ^a,c   Yu, Jun ^a   Munson, Jeffery ^a   Chen, Donghui ^a   Hua, Wenhui ^b   Estes, Annette ^a   Cortes, Fanny ^d   De La Barra, Flora ^d   Yu, Dongmei ^a   Haider, Syed T ^b   Trask, Barbara J ^a,f   Green, Eric D ^e   Raskind, Wendy H ^a   Disteche, Christine M ^a   Wijsman, Ellen ^a   Dawson, Geraldine ^a   Storm, Daniel R ^b   Schellenberg, Gerard D ^a,b,c   Villacres, Enrique C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN AUTS2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FETUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036993811     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2002.6810     Document Type: Article

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