Screening of nine candidate genes for autism on chromosome 2q reveals rare nonsynonymous variants in the cAMP-GEFII gene

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 916-924

  Bacchelli, E ^a   Blasi, F ^a   Biondolillo, M ^a   Lamb, J A ^b   Bonora, E ^b   Barnby, G ^b   Parr, J ^c   Beyer, K S ^d   Klauck, S M ^d   Poustka, A ^d   Bailey, A J ^c   Monaco, A P ^b   Maestrini, E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Association; Autistic disorder; Chromosome 2; Mutation screening; Susceptibility gene

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIN; CYCLIC AMP GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR II; DISTAL LESS 2 PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; HOMEOBOX D1 PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PROTEIN; T BOX BRAIN 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 10744226187     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001340     Document Type: Article

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