Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 881-885

  Gaugler, Trent ^a   Klei, Lambertus ^b   Sanders, Stephan J ^c,d   Bodea, Corneliu A ^a   Goldberg, Arthur P ^e   Lee, Ann B ^a   Mahajan, Milind ^e   Manaa, Dina ^e   Pawitan, Yudi ^f   Reichert, Jennifer ^e   Ripke, Stephan ^g   Sandin, Sven ^f   Sklar, Pamela ^e   Svantesson, Oscar ^f   Reichenberg, Abraham ^e   Hultman, Christina M ^f   Devlin, Bernie ^b   Roeder, Kathryn ^a,h   Buxbaum, Joseph D ^e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME SIZE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SWEDEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905582433     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3039     Document Type: Article

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