Clustering autism: Using neuroanatomical differences in 26 mouse models to gain insight into the heterogeneity

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 118-125

  Ellegood, J ^a   Anagnostou, E ^b   Babineau, B A ^c   Crawley, J N ^c,d   Lin, L ^e   Genestine, M ^e   Dicicco Bloom, E ^e   Lai, J K Y ^f   Foster, J A ^f   Penagarikano O ^g   Geschwind, D H ^g   Pacey, L K ^h   Hampson, D R ^h   Laliberte C L ^a   Mills, A A ⁱ   Tam, E ^h   Osborne, L R ^h   Kouser, M ^h   Espinosa Becerra, F ^h   Xuan, Z ^h   Powell, C M ^c   Raznahan, A ^j   Robins, D M ^k   Nakai, N ^k   Nakatani, J ^k   Takumi, T ^k   Van Eede, M C ^a   Kerr, T M ^l   Muller, C ^l   Blakely, R D ^l   Veenstra Vander Weele, J ^l   Henkelman, R M ^a,m   Lerch, J P ^a,m   more..

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^k RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^l VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EN2 PROTEIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; NLGN3 PROTEIN; NRXN1A PROTEIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONOSOMY X; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 84922229342     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.98     Document Type: Article

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