Gene expression in human brain implicates sexually dimorphic pathways in autism spectrum disorders

oleh: Donna M. Werling, Neelroop N. Parikshak, Daniel H. Geschwind

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-02-01

Deskripsi

Autism spectrum disorder is approximately 4.5 times more likely to occur in boys than girls. Here, Werling, Geschwind and Parikshak characterized sexually dimorphic gene expression in the non-diseased, post-mortem, adult and prenatal human brain, and show genes expressed at higher levels in males are significantly enriched for genes upregulated in autistic brain.