Exome sequencing of extended families with autism reveals genes shared across neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders

Molecular Autism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cukier, Holly N ^a   Dueker, Nicole D ^a   Slifer, Susan H ^a   Lee, Joycelyn M ^a   Whitehead, Patrice L ^a   Lalanne, Eminisha ^a   Leyva, Natalia ^a   Konidari, Ioanna ^a   Gentry, Ryan C ^a   Hulme, William F ^a   Booven, Derek Van ^a   Mayo, Vera ^a   Hofmann, Natalia K ^a   Schmidt, Michael A ^a   Martin, Eden R ^a   Haines, Jonathan L ^b   Cuccaro, Michael L ^a   Gilbert, John R ^a   Pericak Vance, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Identical by descent (IBD); Single nucleotide variant (SNV); Whole exome sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892383122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-1     Document Type: Article

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