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Schizophrenia Related Variants in CACNA1C also Confer Risk of Autism.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Li Jun, Zhao Linnan, You Yang, Lu Tianlan, Jia Meixiang, Yu Hao, Ruan Yanyan, Yue Weihua, Liu Jing, Lu Lin, Zhang Dai, Wang Lifang
Abstract excerpt
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders with a strong genetic component. Many lines of evidence indicated that ASD shares common genetic variants with other psychiatric disorders (for example, schizophrenia). Previous studies detected that calcium channels are involved in the etiology of many psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and autism. Significant association...
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