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Ordered-subset analysis of savant skills in autism for 15q11-q13.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 May 2005
Ma D Q, Jaworski J, Menold M M, Donnelly S, Abramson R K, Wright H H, Delong G R, Gilbert J R, Pericak-Vance M A, Cuccaro Michael L
Abstract excerpt
Autism is a complex disorder characterized by genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. Analysis of phenotypically homogeneous subtypes has been used to both confirm and narrow potential autism linkage regions such as the chromosomal region 15q11-q13. Increased evidence for linkage in this region had been found in a subgroup of 21 autism families (total families = 94) stratified based on a savant skill factor (SSF)...
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