Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5589027 | European Journal of Medical Genetics | 2016 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
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).
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Authors
Caroline Scholz, Doris Steinemann, Madeleine Mälzer, Mandy Roy, Mine Arslan-Kirchner, Thomas Illig, Jörg Schmidtke, Manfred Stuhrmann,