The genetics of autism spectrum disorders - A guide for clinicians

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Heil, Karsten M ^a   Schaaf, Christian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aCGH; Array comparative genomic hybridization; ASDs; Autism genetics; Autism spectrum disorders; Chromosome microarrays; CNVs; Common variant common disease model; Copy number variants; CVCV; Genetic disorders; Genome sequencing; Incomplete penetrance; Oligogenic heterozygosity; Psychiatry; Rare genetic variants; Rare variant common disease model; RVCD; Single nucleotide polymorphisms arrays; SNPs; Synaptic plasticity; Unclassified variants; Variable expressivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXOME; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PENETRANCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84871173898     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0334-3     Document Type: Article

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