Polymorphisms of candidate genes in Slovak autistic patients

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 137-139

  Kelemenova, Silvia ^a   Schmidtova, Eva ^a   Ficek, Andrej ^b   Celec, Peter ^a,b   Kubranska, Aneta ^a   Ostatnikova, Daniela ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Autism; candidate genes; polymorphism; reelin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA3; NEUROLIGIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; REELIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; REELIN PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SLOVAKIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 77954886846     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e32833a1eb3     Document Type: Article

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