A model incorporating potential skewed x-inactivation in MZ girls suggests that X-linked QTLS exist for several social behaviours including autism spectrum disorder

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 742-751

  Loat, C S ^a   Haworth, C M A ^a   Plomin, R ^a   Craig, Ian W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; QTLs; Twin studies; X inactivation; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 54049133317     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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