MAGEL2 and Oxytocin - Implications in Prader-Willi Syndrome and Beyond

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 78-80

  Fountain, Michael D ^a,b   Schaaf, Christian P ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR AGONIST; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR AGONIST; OXYTOCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHROMOSOME 15; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MAGEL2 GENE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AUTISM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PROTEINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84937597507     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.05.006     Document Type: Note

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