Lack of Evidence for An Association between WNT2 and RELN Polymorphisms and Auitism

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 126 B, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-57

  Li, Jun ^a   Nguyen, Loan ^a   Gleason, Christopher ^a   Lotspeich, Linda ^a   Spiker, Donna ^a   Risch, Neil ^a   Myers, Richard M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic association; Autistic disorder; Candidate genes; Linkage disequilibrium; SNP

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; REELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT2 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STEREOTYPY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIBLINGS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT2 PROTEIN;

EID: 1842591879     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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