From Genes to Environment: Using Integrative Genomics to Build a "Systems-Level" Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-103

  Hu, Valerie W ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR ALPHA; RORA PROTEIN, HUMAN; SEX HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP F, MEMBER 1; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84872945535     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01759.x     Document Type: Article

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