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A sex-specific association of common variants of neuroligin genes (NLGN3 and NLGN4X) with autism spectrum disorders in a Chinese Han cohort.
Behavioral and brain functions : BBF - 14 May 2011
Yu Jindan, He Xue, Yao Dan, Li Zhongyue, Li Hui, Zhao Zhengyan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Synaptic genes, NLGN3 and NLGN4X, two homologous members of the neuroligin family, have been supposed as predisposition loci for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), and defects of these two genes have been identified in a small fraction of individuals with ASDs. But no such rare variant in these two genes has as yet been adequately replicated in Chinese population and no common variant has been further...
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