Sex-specific gene-environment interactions underlying ASD-like behaviors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1383-1388

  Schaafsma, Sara M ^a   Gagnidze, Khatuna ^a   Reyes, Anny ^a   Norstedt, Natalie ^a   Månsson, Karl ^a   Francis, Kerel ^a   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Cntnap2; Maternal immune activation; Prenatal stress; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CONTACTIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN LIKE 2; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CNTNAP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC LOAD; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HABITUATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEFT HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIGHT HIPPOCAMPUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL RECOGNITION TEST; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; SEX FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85011674810     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619312114     Document Type: Article

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