Environmental risk factors for autism: Do they help cause de novo genetic mutations that contribute to the disorder?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 102-106

  Kinney, Dennis K ^a,b   Barch, Daniel H ^a   Chayka, Bogdan ^a   Napoleon, Siena ^a   Munir, Kerim M ^b,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; DNA; MERCURY; NICKEL; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARENTAL AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK FACTOR; SUN EXPOSURE; TWIN CONCORDANCE; URBANIZATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARENTS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D;

EID: 70450267474     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.052     Document Type: Article

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