A Familial Heterozygous Null Mutation of MET in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 617-622

  Lambert, Nelle ^a,b   Wermenbol, Vanessa ^a   Pichon, Bruno ^a   Acosta, Sandra ^b,e   van den Ameele, Jelle ^b,c   Perazzolo, Camille ^b   Messina, Diana ^a   Musumeci, Maria Franca ^d   Dessars, Barbara ^a   De Leener, Anne ^a   Abramowicz, Marc ^a   Vilain, Catheline ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^e ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; C MET; Neurodevelopment; Social brain

Indexed keywords

MET PROTEIN, HUMAN; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84931430369     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1396     Document Type: Article

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