De novo single exon deletion of AUTS2 in a patient with speech and language disorder: A review of disrupted AUTS2 and further evidence for its role in neurodevelopmental disorders

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 958-965

  Amarillo, Ina E ^a   Li, Wenhui Laura ^a   Li, Xinmin ^a   Vilain, Eric ^a   Kantarci, Sibel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

7q11.22; Autism susceptibility candidate 2; AUTS2; Neurodevelopmental disorders

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; AUTS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTS2 GENE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CPG ISLAND; EXON; FEMALE; FLATFOOT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INTRON; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEECH DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENETICS; SPEECH;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPEECH;

EID: 84896319374     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36393     Document Type: Article

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