A brain region-specific predictive gene map for autism derived by profiling a reference gene set

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Swanwick, Catherine Croft ^a   Johnson, Nicole ^a   Menashe, Idan ^a   Basu, Saumyendra N ^a   Bales, Michael E ^b   Banerjee Basu, Sharmila ^a  

^a MindSpec McLean   (United States)

^b NMBI Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OLFACTORY BULB; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 83055182209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028431     Document Type: Article

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