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Resequencing and association analysis of OXTR with autism spectrum disorder in a Japanese population.
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences - 1 Mar 2015
Egawa Jun, Watanabe Yuichiro, Shibuya Masako, Endo Taro, Sugimoto Atsunori, Igeta Hirofumi, Nunokawa Ayako, Inoue Emiko, Someya Toshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is implicated in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A recent study found a rare non-synonymous OXTR gene variation, rs35062132 (R376G), associated with ASD in a Japanese population. In order to investigate the association between rare non-synonymous OXTR variations and ASD, we resequenced OXTR and performed association analysis with ASD in a Japanese...
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