Moving from capstones toward cornerstones: Successes and challenges in applying systems biology to identify mechanisms of autism spectrum disorders

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Kopp, Nathan ^a   Climer, Sharlee ^b   Dougherty, Joseph D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

ASD; Autism; CSEA; Network analysis; Review; Systems biology; WGCNA

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AUTISM; EVOLUTION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84947050833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00301     Document Type: Review

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