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Examination of NRCAM, LRRN3, KIAA0716, and LAMB1 as autism candidate genes.
BMC medical genetics - 5 May 2004
Hutcheson Holli B, Olson Lana M, Bradford Yuki, Folstein Susan E, Santangelo Susan L, Sutcliffe James S, Haines Jonathan L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A substantial body of research supports a genetic involvement in autism. Furthermore, results from various genomic screens implicate a region on chromosome 7q31 as harboring an autism susceptibility variant. We previously narrowed this 34 cM region to a 3 cM critical region (located between D7S496 and D7S2418) using the Collaborative Linkage Study of Autism (CLSA) chromosome 7 linked families. This...
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