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Evaluation of FOXP2 as an autism susceptibility gene.
American journal of medical genetics - 8 Jul 2002
Wassink Thomas H, Piven Joseph, Vieland Veronica J, Pietila Jennifer, Goedken Rhinda J, Folstein Susan E, Sheffield Val C
Abstract excerpt
A mutation in the gene FOXP2 was recently identified as being responsible for a complicated speech and language phenotype in a single large extended pedigree. This gene is of interest to autism because it lies in one of the most consistently linked autism chromosomal regions of interest. We therefore tested this gene for its involvement in autism in a large sample of autism families. We completely sequenced the...
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