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The association of CNTNAP2 rs7794745 gene polymorphism and autism in Iranian population.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 May 2017
Zare Sahar, Mashayekhi Farhad, Bidabadi Elham
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Autism is a heterogeneous and multifactorial disease that results from the interaction between genetic vulnerability and environmental factors. Several studies showed that many of genes that play role in autism are component of signaling networks that regulate growth and synaptic plasticity, play an important role in the etiology of autism. Contactin associated-like 2 (CNTNAP2) gene is a member of the superfamily...
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