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Investigation of maternal genotype effects in autism by genome-wide association.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research - 1 Apr 2014
Yuan Han, Dougherty Joseph D
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Like most psychiatric disorders, autism spectrum disorders have both a genetic and an environmental component. While previous studies have clearly demonstrated the contribution of in utero (prenatal) environment on autism risk, most of them focused on transient environmental factors. Based on a recent sibling study, we hypothesized that environmental factors could also come from the maternal genome, which would...
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