Do common variants play a role in risk for autism? Evidence and theoretical musings.

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Both rare and common genetic variants underlie risk for almost any complex disease. Over the past few years a common tool for identifying common risk variants is genome-wide association or GWA. Our analyses focus on results from GWA targeting common variants affecting risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thus far three large GWA studies have been published, each of which highlights a single, non-overlapping...

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