This chapter contains sections titled: Genetic Influences and Autism Quantitative Genetics
Chromosomal Abnormalities And Genetically Determined Medical Conditions Molecular …

Autism is a heritable disorder characterized by phenotypic and genetic complexity. This
review begins by surveying current linkage, gene association, and cytogenetic studies …

In 1943, Leo Kanner, the director of the first academic program in child psychiatry in the
United States, published a series of 11 cases of a heretofore unrecognized syndrome. He …

Genetic epidemiology is the study of inherited factors involved in the etiology of a disease or
disorder and uses the methods of both medical genetics and clinical epidemiology. In …

Autism is a highly heritable complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by distinct
impairments of cognitive function in the field of social interaction and speech development …

▪ Abstract Autism is one of the most heritable complex disorders, with compelling evidence
for genetic factors and little or no support for environmental influence. The estimated …

Genetic studies have revealed the involvement of hundreds of gene variants in autism. Their
risk effects are highly variable, and they are frequently related to other conditions besides …

Autism is an etiologically and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders, diagnosed solely
by the complex behavioral phenotype. On the basis of the high-heritability index, geneticists …

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with high heritability and a likely complex genetic
architecture. Much genetic evidence has accumulated in the last 20 years but no gene has …

There is increasing evidence that autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) can arise from rare
highly penetrant mutations and genomic imbalances. The rare nature of these variants, and …