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Absence of association between a polymorphic GGC repeat in the 5' untranslated region of the reelin gene and autism.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2002
Krebs M O, Betancur C, Leroy S, Bourdel M C, Gillberg C, Leboyer M
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Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with severe cognitive and communication disabilities, that has a strong genetic predisposition. Reelin, a protein involved in neuronal migration during development, is encoded by a gene located on 7q22, within the candidate region on 7q showing increased allele sharing in previous genome scans. A case/control and family-based association study recently reported a...
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