Excess variants in AFF2 detected by massively parallel sequencing of males with autism spectrum disorder

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4356-4364

  Mondal, Kajari ^a   Ramachandran, Dhanya ^a   Patel, Viren C ^a   Hagen, Katie R ^a   Bose, Promita ^a   Cutler, David J ^a   Zwick, Michael E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFF2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84866348451     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds267     Document Type: Article

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