Functional annotation of genes overlapping copy number variants in autistic patients: Focus on axon pathfinding

Current Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-145

  Sbacchi, Silvia ^a   Acquadro, Francesco ^b   Calò, Ignazio ^a   Calì, Francesco ^c   Romano, Valentino ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^c OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Axon guidance signalling; Candidate genes; Copy number variants; Gene ontology; Neurodevelopment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 77950383304     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920210790886880     Document Type: Article

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