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Confirmation of association between autism and the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier SLC25A12 gene on chromosome 2q31.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Nov 2005
Segurado Ricardo, Conroy Judith, Meally Eleanor, Fitzgerald Michael, Gill Michael, Gallagher Louise
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OBJECTIVE: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with childhood onset and a known major genetic component. A recent study identified a highly significant association between autism and a two-single-nucleotide-polymorphism haplotype in the SLC25A12 gene, with a homozygote genotype relative risk between 2.4 and 4.8. The authors' goal was to investigate this association with autism in Irish affected child-parent...
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