Autism-Associated Promoter Variant in MET Impacts Functional and Structural Brain Networks

Neuron

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 904-915

  Rudie, Jeffrey D ^a   Hernandez, Leanna M ^a   Brown, Jesse A ^a   Beck Pancer, Devora ^a   Colich, Natalie L ^a   Gorrindo, Philip ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a,c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^a   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a   Levitt, Pat ^b   Dapretto, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MET GENE; MET RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE GENE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84865979545     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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