Quantitative genome scan and Ordered-Subsets Analysis of autism endophenotypes support language QTLs

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 747-757

  Alarcon M ^a   Yonan, A L ^b   Gilliam, T C ^b,c   Cantor, R M ^d   Geschwind, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Language; Linkage; Nonparametric; Sibpair

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME 3Q; FAMILY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIBLING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 23744471663     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001666     Document Type: Article

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