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Association of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in Caucasian children and adolescents with autism.
Neuroscience letters - 24 Apr 2007
Jacob Suma, Brune Camille W, Carter C S, Leventhal Bennett L, Lord Catherine, Cook Edwin H
Abstract excerpt
The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been studied in autism because of the role of oxytocin (OT) in social cognition. Linkage has also been demonstrated to the region of OXTR in a large sample. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and a haplotype constructed from them in OXTR have been associated with autism in the Chinese Han population. We tested whether these associations replicated in a Caucasian...
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