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A common genetic variant in the neurexin superfamily member CNTNAP2 increases familial risk of autism.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2008
Arking Dan E, Cutler David J, Brune Camille W, Teslovich Tanya M, West Kristen, Ikeda Morna, Rea Alexis, Guy Moltu, Lin Shin, Cook Edwin H, Chakravarti Aravinda
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Autism is a childhood neuropsychiatric disorder that, despite exhibiting high heritability, has largely eluded efforts to identify specific genetic variants underlying its etiology. We performed a two-stage genetic study in which genome-wide linkage and family-based association mapping was followed up by association and replication studies in an independent sample. We identified a common polymorphism in...
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