Novel method for combined linkage and genome-wide association analysis finds evidence of distinct genetic architecture for two subtypes of autism

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-123

  Vieland, Veronica J ^a   Hallmayer, Joachim ^b   Huang, Yungui ^a   Pagnamenta, Alistair T ^c   Pinto, Dalila ^d   Khan, Hameed ^d   Monaco, Anthony P ^c   Paterson, Andrew D ^d   Scherer, Stephen W ^d   Sutcliffe, James S ^e   Szatmari, Peter ^f  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Genome wide association; IQ; Linkage analysis; PPL; PPLD

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958065866     PISSN: 18661947     EISSN: 18661955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11689-011-9072-9     Document Type: Article

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