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dc.contributor.authorTrikalinos, T. A.en
dc.contributor.authorKarvouni, A.en
dc.contributor.authorZintzaras, E.en
dc.contributor.authorYlisaukko-oja, T.en
dc.contributor.authorPeltonen, L.en
dc.contributor.authorJarvela, I.en
dc.contributor.authorIoannidis, J. P.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-24T19:40:20Z-
dc.date.available2015-11-24T19:40:20Z-
dc.identifier.issn1359-4184-
dc.identifier.urihttps://olympias.lib.uoi.gr/jspui/handle/123456789/24339-
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dc.subjectAsperger Syndrome/*geneticsen
dc.subjectAutistic Disorder/*geneticsen
dc.subject*Genetic Heterogeneityen
dc.subject*Genome, Humanen
dc.subject*Genomicsen
dc.subjectHumansen
dc.titleA heterogeneity-based genome search meta-analysis for autism-spectrum disordersen
heal.typejournalArticle-
heal.type.enJournal articleen
heal.type.elΆρθρο Περιοδικούel
heal.identifier.primary10.1038/sj.mp.4001750-
heal.identifier.secondaryhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16189507-
heal.identifier.secondaryhttp://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v11/n1/pdf/4001750a.pdf-
heal.languageen-
heal.accesscampus-
heal.recordProviderΠανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Επιστημών Υγείας. Τμήμα Ιατρικήςel
heal.publicationDate2006-
heal.abstractAutism and autism-spectrum disorders exhibit high heritability, although specific susceptibility genes still remain largely elusive. We performed a heterogeneity-based genome search meta-analysis (HEGESMA) of nine genome scans on autism or autism-spectrum disorders. Each genome scan was separated in 30 cM bins and the maximum linkage statistic from each bin was ranked. Significance for each bin's average rank and for between-scan heterogeneity (dis-similarity in the average ranks) was obtained through Monte Carlo tests. For autism, data from 771 affected sibpairs were synthesized across six separate genome scans. Region 7q22-q32 reached genome-wide significance both in weighted and unweighted analyses, with evidence for significantly low between-scan heterogeneity. The flanking chromosomal region 7q32-qter reached the less stringent threshold of suggestive significance, with no evidence for low between-scan heterogeneity. For autism-spectrum disorders (634 affected sibpairs from five separate scans), no chromosomal region reached genome-wide significance. However, suggestive significance was reached for the chromosomal regions 17p11.2-q12 and 10p12-q11.1 in weighted analyses. There was evidence for significantly high between-scan heterogeneity for the former region. The meta-analysis suggests that the 7q22-q32 region should be further scrutinized for autism susceptibility genes, while autism-spectrum disorders seem to have quite diverse linkage signals across scans, possibly suggesting genetic heterogeneity across subsyndromes and subpopulations.en
heal.journalNameMol Psychiatryen
heal.journalTypepeer-reviewed-
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