A genome-wide association study of social and non-social autistic-like traits in the general population using pooled DNA, 500 K SNP microarrays and both community and diagnosed autism replication samples.

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Published in Behav Genet on December 13, 2009

Authors

Angelica Ronald1, Lee M Butcher, Sophia Docherty, Oliver S P Davis, Leonard C Schalkwyk, Ian W Craig, Robert Plomin

Author Affiliations

1: Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. a.ronald@bbk.ac.uk

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