Unraveling autism. [Am J Hum Genet. 2008]

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Unraveling autism.

Stephan DA.

Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA. dstephan@tgen.org

In this issue of AJHG, Alarcón et al.,(1) Arking et al.,(2) and Bakkaloglu et al.(3) identify a series of functional variants in the CNTNAP2 gene that unequivocally implicate this gene as causing Type 1 autism in the general population.

PMID: 18179879 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2253980

A common genetic variant in the neurexin superfamily member CNTNAP2 increases familial risk of autism. [Am J Hum Genet. 2008]
Linkage, association, and gene-expression analyses identify CNTNAP2 as an autism-susceptibility gene. [Am J Hum Genet. 2008]
Molecular cytogenetic analysis and resequencing of contactin associated protein-like 2 in autism spectrum disorders. [Am J Hum Genet. 2008]
Analysis of the neuroligin 3 and 4 genes in autism and other neuropsychiatric patients. [Mol Psychiatry. 2005]
Mutation screening of X-chromosomal neuroligin genes: no mutations in 196 autism probands. [Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2004]
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