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ReviewJournal of neuropathology and experimental neurology2008

Current developments in the genetics of autism: from phenome to genome.

Molly Losh, Patrick F Sullivan, Dimitri Trembath, Joseph Piven

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Review in Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Prenatal exposure to paternal smoking and likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021
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  12. AutismKB 2.0: a knowledgebase for the genetic evidence of autism spectrum disorder.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2018
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  17. Model invariance across genders of the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Molly LoshDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7190, USA. losh@med.unc.edu
Patrick F Sullivan
Dimitri Trembath
Joseph Piven

Funding

Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Develop(RMI)K12RR023248 · NCRR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ORRINGER, EUGENE P · 2005 to 2007
$6.3M
An Investigation of Neuropsychological Endophenotypes in Autism and Fragile XR03MH079998 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MARTIN, GARY EVERETT · 2008 to 2009
$148k
Autism Speaks AS1377NCRR NIH HHS K12 RR023248NCRR NIH HHS K12RR023248NIMH NIH HHS L30 MH081741NIMH NIH HHS R03 MH079998NIMH NIH HHS R03MH079998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite compelling evidence from twin and family studies indicating a strong genetic involvement in the etiology of autism, the unequivocal detection of autism susceptibility genes remains an elusive goal. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the current state of autism genetics research, with attention focused on new techniques and analytic approaches. We first present a brief overview of evidence for the genetic basis of autism, followed by an appraisal of linkage and candidate gene study findings and consideration of new analytic approaches to the study of complex psychiatric conditions, namely, genome-wide association studies, assessment of structural variation within the genome, and the incorporation of endophenotypes in genetic analysis.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseAutistic DisorderGenotypeHumansPhenotype

Identifiers

PMID18716561
PMCPMC2649757

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