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Autism spectrum disorder in Phelan-McDermid syndrome: initial characterization and genotype-phenotype correlations.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 27 Aug 2015
Oberman Lindsay M, Boccuto Luigi, Cascio Lauren, Sarasua Sara, Kaufmann Walter E
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BACKGROUND: Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with a terminal deletion affecting chromosome 22 (22q13) that results in the loss of function of the SHANK3 gene. SHANK3 has also been identified in gene-linkage studies to be associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Diagnosis of ASD in individuals with PMS is complicated by the presence of moderate to profound global...
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