Association and mutation analyses of 16p11.2 autism candidate genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kumar, Ravinesh A ^a   Marshall, Christian R ^c   Badner, Judith A ^a   Babatz, Timothy D ^a   Mukamel, Zohar ^e   Aldinger, Kimberly A ^a   Sudi, Jyotsna ^a   Brune, Camille W ^b   Goh, Gerald ^a   KaraMohamed, Samer ^a   Sutcliffe, James S ^d   Cook, Edwin H ^b   Geschwind, Daniel H ^e   Dobyns, William B ^a   Scherer, Stephen W ^c   Christian, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX LAYER; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; FETUS; FETUS BRAIN; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEZ6L2 GENE; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS;

EID: 84864276520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004582     Document Type: Article

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