A CTNNA3 compound heterozygous deletion implicates a role for αt-catenin in susceptibility to autism spectrum disorder

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bacchelli, Elena ^a   Ceroni, Fabiola ^a   Pinto, Dalila ^b   Lomartire, Silvia ^a   Giannandrea, Maila ^c   D'Adamo, Patrizia ^c,d   Bonora, Elena ^e   Parchi, Piero ^f,g   Tancredi, Raffaella ^h   Battaglia, Agatino ^h   Maestrini, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f IRCCS ISTITUTO DELLE SCIENZE NEUROLOGICHE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha T catenin; Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Cell adhesion; CTNNA3; DNA copy number variants; T catenin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; ALPHA T CATENIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BASE PAIRING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COMPOUND HETEROZYGOUS DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTNNA3 GENE; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84952871619     PISSN: 18661947     EISSN: 18661955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1866-1955-6-17     Document Type: Article

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