Genome-wide association study of autistic-like traits in a general population study of young adults

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Rachel Maree ^a   Cadby, Gemma ^a   Melton, Phillip E ^a   Abraham, Lawrence J ^a   Whitehouse, Andrew J ^b   Moses, Eric K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Autism spectrum quotient; Autistic like traits; CBLN1; Genome wide association; PRKCB1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C BETA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM QUOTIENT; CBLN1 GENE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRKCB1 GENE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84886440911     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00658     Document Type: Article

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