Shared Pathways Among Autism Candidate Genes Determined by Co-expression Network Analysis of the Developing Human Brain Transcriptome

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 580-594

  Mahfouz, Ahmed ^a,b   Ziats, Mark N ^c,d,e   Rennert, Owen M ^c   Lelieveldt, Boudewijn P F ^a,b   Reinders, Marcel J T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autism spectrum disorder; Gene co expression network; Mitochondrion; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; UBIQUITINATION; BRAIN; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84947043015     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: 15591166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-015-0641-3     Document Type: Article

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