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Discovery of allelic variants of HOXA1 and HOXB1: genetic susceptibility to autism spectrum disorders.
Teratology - 1 Dec 2000
Ingram J L, Stodgell C J, Hyman S L, Figlewicz D A, Weitkamp L R, Rodier P M
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BACKGROUND: Family studies have demonstrated that the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have a major genetic etiologic component, but expression and penetrance of the phenotype are variable. Mice with null mutations of Hoxa1 or Hoxb1, two genes critical to hindbrain development, have phenotypic features frequently observed in autism, but no naturally occurring variants of either gene have been identified in...
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