A detailed association analysis between the tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) gene and autism spectrum disorders in a Japanese population

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 196, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 320-322

  Egawa, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Yuichiro ^a,b   Nunokawa, Ayako ^a   Endo, Taro ^a   Kaneko, Naoshi ^a   Tamura, Ryu ^a   Sugiyama, Toshiro ^c   Someya, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Missense variation; Resequencing; Tagging SNPs

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSM-IV; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TPH2 GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861459944     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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