No evidence for association of autism with rare heterozygous point mutations in Contactin-Associated Protein-Like 2 (CNTNAP2), or in Other Contactin-Associated Proteins or Contactins.

Contactins and Contactin-Associated Proteins, and Contactin-Associated Protein-Like 2 (CNTNAP2) in particular, have been widely cited as autism risk genes based on findings from homozygosity mapping, molecular cytogenetics, copy number variation analyses, and both common and rare single nucleotide a...

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Published in:PLoS Genetics
Main Authors: John D Murdoch, Abha R Gupta, Stephan J Sanders, Michael F Walker, John Keaney, Thomas V Fernandez, Michael T Murtha, Samuel Anyanwu, Gordon T Ober, Melanie J Raubeson, Nicholas M DiLullo, Natalie Villa, Zainabdul Waqar, Catherine Sullivan, Luis Gonzalez, A Jeremy Willsey, So-Yeon Choe, Benjamin M Neale, Mark J Daly, Matthew W State
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4306541?pdf=render