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Evaluation of the chromosome 2q37.3 gene CENTG2 as an autism susceptibility gene.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Jul 2005
Wassink Thomas H, Piven Joseph, Vieland Veronica J, Jenkins Laura, Frantz Rebecca, Bartlett Christopher W, Goedken Rhinda, Childress Deb, Spence M Anne, Smith Moyra, Sheffield Val C
Abstract excerpt
Autism is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental syndrome with a complex genetic etiology for which no disease genes have yet been definitively identified. We ascertained three subjects with autism spectrum disorders and chromosome 2q37.3 terminal deletions, and refined the deletion breakpoint regions using polymorphism mapping and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes. We then genotyped polymorphic...
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