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Whole exome sequencing in females with autism implicates novel and candidate genes.
International journal of molecular sciences - 7 Jan 2015
Butler Merlin G, Rafi Syed K, Hossain Waheeda, Stephan Dietrich A, Manzardo Ann M
Abstract excerpt
Classical autism or autistic disorder belongs to a group of genetically heterogeneous conditions known as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Heritability is estimated as high as 90% for ASD with a recently reported compilation of 629 clinically relevant candidate and known genes. We chose to undertake a descriptive next generation whole exome sequencing case study of 30 well-characterized Caucasian females with...
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