Open AccessCopy number variations in Japanese children with autism spectrum disorder
Author(s) -
Y. Sakamoto,
Shuji Shimoyama,
Tatsuo Furukawa,
Masaki Adachi,
Michio Takahashi,
Tamaki Mikami,
Michito Kuribayashi,
Ayako Osato,
Daiki Tsushima,
Manabu Saito,
Shinji Ueno,
Kazuhiko Nakamura
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychiatric genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1473-5873
pISSN - 0955-8829
DOI - 10.1097/ypg.0000000000000276
Subject(s) - copy number variation , autism , autism spectrum disorder , gene duplication , odds ratio , genetics , exact test , medicine , biology , genome , gene , psychiatry
Although autism spectrum disorder (ASD) occurs worldwide, most genomic studies on ASD were performed on those of Western ancestry. We hypothesized ASD-related copy number variations (CNVs) of Japanese individuals might be different from those of Western individuals.