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The human secretin gene: fine structure in 11p15.5 and sequence variation in patients with autism.
Genomics - 1 Aug 2002
Yamagata Takanori, Aradhya Swaroop, Mori Masato, Inoue Ken, Momoi Mariko Y, Nelson David L
Abstract excerpt
Secretin is a peptide hormone involved in digestion that has been studied as a potential therapeutic agent in patients with autism. We characterized the human secretin locus to determine whether mutations in this gene might play a role in a fraction of autism patients. While the secretin gene (SCT) was not found to be mutated in the majority of autistic patients, rare heterozygous sequence variants were...
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