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No association between allelic variants of HOXA1/HOXB1 and autism.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Jan 2004
Gallagher Louise, Hawi Ziarih, Kearney Geraldine, Fitzgerald Michael, Gill Michael
Abstract excerpt
Two recent studies have reported conflicting findings of association of a variant in the HOXA1 gene and autism. To try to resolve the conflict in findings, we conducted an association study in 78 Irish families of the reported DNA variants. We did not find statistically significant association between the variants and autism. Similarly there was no evidence of preferential transmission of variants from parent of...
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