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Genome-wide linkage analyses of quantitative and categorical autism subphenotypes.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Oct 2008
Liu Xiao-Qing, Paterson Andrew D, Szatmari Peter
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BACKGROUND: The search for susceptibility genes in autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been hindered by the possible small effects of individual genes and by genetic (locus) heterogeneity. To overcome these obstacles, one method is to use autism-related subphenotypes instead of the categorical diagnosis of autism since they may be more directly related to the underlying susceptibility loci. Another...
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