Social Behavior and Gene Expression Disturbances in Mouse Models of Angelman Syndrome and Idic15 Autism

Reciprocal changes in UBE3A gene dosage cause two neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternally inherited deletions of UBE3A cause Angelman syndrome, characterized by intellectual disability, motor defects, seizures, and a pathognomonic increased social motivation. Whereas maternally inherited triplicati...

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Main Author: Stoppel, David Christopher
Other Authors: Anderson, Matthew Peter
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11314
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274549