Autism is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder of developmental origin, where multiple genetic and environmental factors likely interact resulting in a clinical continuum between “affected” and “unaffected” individuals in the general population. During the last two decades, relevant progress has been made in identifying chromosomal regions and genes in linkage or association with autism, but no single gene has emerged as a major cause of disease in a large number of patients. The purpose of this paper is to discuss specific methodological issues and experimental strategies in autism genetic research, based on fourteen years of experience in patient recruitment and association studies of autism spectrum disorder in Italy.
Autism genetics: methodological issues and experimental design / Sacco, Roberto; Lintas, Carla; Persico, Antonio M.. - In: SCIENCE CHINA. LIFE SCIENCES. - ISSN 1674-7305. - STAMPA. - 58:10(2015), pp. 946-957. [10.1007/s11427-012-4315-x]
Autism genetics: methodological issues and experimental design
SACCO, ROBERTO;
2015
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Autism is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder of developmental origin, where multiple genetic and environmental factors likely interact resulting in a clinical continuum between “affected” and “unaffected” individuals in the general population. During the last two decades, relevant progress has been made in identifying chromosomal regions and genes in linkage or association with autism, but no single gene has emerged as a major cause of disease in a large number of patients. The purpose of this paper is to discuss specific methodological issues and experimental strategies in autism genetic research, based on fourteen years of experience in patient recruitment and association studies of autism spectrum disorder in Italy.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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