Bias towards large genes in autism

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shohat, Shahar ^a   Shifman, Sagiv ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905563166     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13583     Document Type: Note

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