Social cognition in Williams syndrome: Genotype/phenotype insights from partial deletion patients

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a   Broadbent, Hannah ^b   Farran, Emily K ^b   Longhi, Elena ^c   D'Souza, Dean ^a   Metcalfe, Kay ^d   Tassabehji, May ^d   Wu, Rachel ^a   Senju, Atsushi ^a   Happé, Francesca ^e   Turnpenny, Peter ^f,g   Sansbury, Francis ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Genetic disorders; Genotype phenotype relations; Partial deletion patients; Social cognition; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867116118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00168     Document Type: Article

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