Variability in the common genetic architecture of social-communication spectrum phenotypes during childhood and adolescence

Molecular Autism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  St Pourcain, Beate ^a   Skuse, David H ^b   Mandy, William P ^c   Wang, Kai ^d,e   Hakonarson, Hakon ^d   Timpson, Nicholas J ^a   Evans, David M ^a,f   Kemp, John P ^a,f   Ring, Susan M ^a   McArdle, Wendy L ^a   Golding, Jean ^a   Smith, George Davey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALSPAC; ASD; Autism; GCTA heritability; GWAS; Social communication

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.9;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHROMOSOME 3P; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION DISORDER CHECKLIST; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84895921267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-18     Document Type: Article

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