کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5589027 1569465 2016 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
NCAM2 deletion in a boy with macrocephaly and autism: Cause, association or predisposition?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی ژنتیک
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NCAM2 deletion in a boy with macrocephaly and autism: Cause, association or predisposition?
چکیده انگلیسی
We report on an 8-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), speech delay, behavioural problems, disturbed sleep and macrosomia including macrocephaly carrying a microdeletion that contains the entire NCAM2 gene and no other functional genes. Other family members with the microdeletion show a large skull circumference but do not exhibit any symptoms of autism spectrum disorder. Among many ASD-candidate genes, NCAM2 has been assumed to play a pivotal role in the development of ASD because of its function in the outgrowth and bundling of neurites. Our reported case raises the questions whether the NCAM2-deletion is the true cause of the ASD or only a risk factor and whether there might be any connection in NCAM2 with skull-size Key words: autism spectrum disorder, macrocephaly, neural cell adhesion molecule 2 protein (NCAM2), array comparative genomic hybridization (microarray).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Journal of Medical Genetics - Volume 59, Issue 10, October 2016, Pages 493-498
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