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Copy number and sequence variants implicate APBA2 as an autism candidate gene.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research - 1 Dec 2009
Babatz Timothy D, Kumar Ravinesh A, Sudi Jyotsna, Dobyns William B, Christian Susan L
Abstract excerpt
We recently reported an autistic proband and affected sibling with maternally inherited microduplications within the 15q13.1 and 15q13.3 regions that contain a total of 4 genes. The amyloid precursor protein-binding protein A2 (APBA2) gene is located within the 15q13.1 duplication and encodes a neuronal adaptor protein essential to synaptic transmission that interacts directly with NRXN1 at the presynaptic...
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