No association between the Neuronal Pentraxin II gene polymorphism and autism

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 940-943

  Marui, Tetsuya ^a   Koishi, Shinko ^b   Funatogawa, Ikuko ^c   Yamamoto, Kenji ^d   Matsumoto, Hideo ^e   Hashimoto, Ohiko ^f   Ishijima, Michiko ^a   Nanba, Eiji ^g   Nishida, Hisami ^h   Sugiyama, Toshiro ^b   Kasai, Kiyoto ^a   Watanabe, Keiichiro ^a   Kano, Yukiko ^a   Kato, Nobumasa ^a   Sasaki, Tsukasa ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AICHI CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f AINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Asunaro Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association study; Autistic disorder; Chromosome 7q; Haplotype block; NPTX2 gene; SNPs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURONAL PENTRAXIN 2 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; AUTISTIC DISORDER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 34247477161     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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