Multiple pathways regulate MeCP2 expression in normal brain development and exhibit defects in autism-spectrum disorders

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 629-639

  Samaco, Rodney C ^a   Nagarajan, Raman P ^a   Braunschweig, Daniel ^a   LaSalle, Janine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYTOMETRY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA MICROARRAY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYADENYLATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETT SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGELMAN SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYADENYLATION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETT SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1642382091     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh063     Document Type: Article

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