Genome-wide linkage analyses of quantitative and categorical autism subphenotypes

BACKGROUND: The search for susceptibility genes in autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been hindered by the possible small effects of individual genes and by genetic (locus) heterogeneity. To overcome these obstacles, one method is to use autism-related subphenotypes instead of the catego...

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Main Author: Liu, XQ (author)
Other Authors: Paterson, AD (author), Szatmari, P (author), Oliveira, G (author), Autism Genome Project Consortium (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1381
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:rihuc.huc.min-saude.pt:10400.4/1381