No Evidence for Association of Autism with Rare Heterozygous Point Mutations in Contactin-Associated Protein-Like 2 (CNTNAP2), or in Other Contactin-Associated Proteins or Contactins

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Murdoch, John D ^a,i   Gupta, Abha R ^b,c   Sanders, Stephan J ^a,d   Walker, Michael F ^d   Keaney, John ^a   Fernandez, Thomas V ^b   Murtha, Michael T ^b   Anyanwu, Samuel ^b   Ober, Gordon T ^b   Raubeson, Melanie J ^b   DiLullo, Nicholas M ^b   Villa, Natalie ^e   Waqar, Zainabdul ^b   Sullivan, Catherine ^b   Gonzalez, Luis ^b   Willsey, A Jeremy ^a,d   Choe, So Yeon ^f   Neale, Benjamin M ^g,h   Daly, Mark J ^g,h   State, Matthew W ^a,b,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACTIN; CNTNAP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; STOP CODON;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTACTIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN GENE; CONTACTIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN LIKE 2 GENE; CONTACTIN GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CODON, NONSENSE; CONTACTINS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84924371272     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004852     Document Type: Article

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