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Converging evidence for an association of ATP2B2 allelic variants with autism in male subjects.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Nov 2011
Carayol Jérôme, Sacco Roberto, Tores Frédéric, Rousseau Francis, Lewin Patricia, Hager Jorg, Persico Antonio M
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BACKGROUND: Autism is a severe developmental disorder, with strong genetic underpinnings. Previous genome-wide scans unveiled a linkage region spanning 3.5 Mb, located on human chromosome 3p25. This region encompasses the ATP2B2 gene, encoding the plasma membrane calcium-transporting ATPase 2 (PMCA2), which extrudes calcium (Ca2+) from the cytosol into the extracellular space. Multiple lines of evidence support...
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