Genetic variation in CNTNAP2 alters brain function during linguistic processing in healthy individuals

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 941-948

  Whalley, Heather C ^a   O'Connell, Garret ^a   Sussmann, Jessika E ^a   Peel, Anna ^a   Stanfield, Andrew C ^a   Hayiou Thomas, Marianna E ^b   Johnstone, Eve C ^a   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a   McIntosh, Andrew M ^a   Hall, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; CNTNAP2; Fmri; Language

Indexed keywords

CONTACTIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN LIKE 2; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80054847541     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31241     Document Type: Article

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