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Common variation in the autism risk gene CNTNAP2, brain structural connectivity and multisensory speech integration.
Brain and language - 1 Nov 2017
Ross Lars A, Del Bene Victor A, Molholm Sophie, Woo Young Jae, Andrade Gizely N, Abrahams Brett S, Foxe John J
Abstract excerpt
Three lines of evidence motivated this study. 1) CNTNAP2 variation is associated with autism risk and speech-language development. 2) CNTNAP2 variations are associated with differences in white matter (WM) tracts comprising the speech-language circuitry. 3) Children with autism show impairment in multisensory speech perception. Here, we asked whether an autism risk-associated CNTNAP2 single nucleotide...
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