| Literature DB >> 22822384 |
A T Vulto-van Silfhout1, A F M de Brouwer, N de Leeuw, C C Obihara, H G Brunner, B B A de Vries.
Abstract
De novo genomic aberrations are considered an important cause of autism spectrum disorders. We describe a de novo 380-kb gain in band p22.3 of chromosome 7 in a patient with Asperger syndrome. This duplicated region contains 9 genes including the LNFG gene that is an important regulator of NOTCH signaling. We suggest that this copy number variation has been a contributive factor to the occurrence of Asperger syndrome in this patient.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 22822384 PMCID: PMC3362183 DOI: 10.1159/000336191
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Syndromol ISSN: 1661-8769