Exploratory subsetting of autism families based on savant skills improves evidence of genetic linkage to 15q11-q13

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 856-863

  Nurmi, Erika L ^a   Dowd, Michael ^b   Tadevosyan Leyfer, Ovsanna ^b   Haines, Jonathan L ^a   Folstein, Susan E ^b   Sutcliffe, James S ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Linkage; Savant; aminobutyric acid receptor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME 15P; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME NOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 15; COGNITION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, GABA;

EID: 0042970462     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CHI.0000046868.56865.0F     Document Type: Article

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