Article: New findings reported from University of British Columbia describe advances in autism.(Report)

"Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are common, heritable neurobiologic conditions of unknown aetiology confounded by significant clinical and genetic heterogeneity. This study evaluated a broad categorisation of phenotypic traits (or phenome) for 100 subjects with Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised/Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic (ADI-R/ADOS-G) confirmed idiopathic ASD undergoing 1 Mb bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) array comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH)," scientists writing in the Journal of Medical Genetics report (see also Autism).

"Array CGH uncovered nine different pathogenic copy number variants (pCNVs) in 9/100 ASD subjects ...

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