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Retinoic acid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORA) variants are associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Metabolic brain disease - 1 Oct 2017
Sayad Arezou, Noroozi Rezvan, Omrani Mir Davood, Taheri Mohammad, Ghafouri-Fard Soudeh
Abstract excerpt
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with various epidemiologic, genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors being associated with it. The observed sex bias in ASD towards male has prompted investigators to propose sex-dependent mechanisms for ASD. Retinoic acid-related orphan receptor-alpha (RORA) is a new autism candidate gene that has been shown to be differentially regulated by...
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