Peripheral blood gene expression signature differentiates children with autism from unaffected siblings

Neurogenetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-152

  Kong, S W ^a   Shimizu Motohashi, Y ^a   Campbell, M G ^a   Lee, I H ^a   Collins, C D ^a   Brewster, S J ^a   Holm, I A ^a   Rappaport, L ^a   Kohane, I S ^a,b   Kunkel, L M ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Gene expression; Simplex family; Unaffected sibling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BLOOD; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHILD; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; UPREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SIBLINGS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84877788577     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: 13646753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-013-0363-z     Document Type: Article

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