Autism is a group of etiology and clinical heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders with an onset before 3 years old.It has 3 core characteristics: deficits in verbal communication;impairment of social interaction;restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.The incidence is increasing over time worldwide.Twin and family studies have demonstrated that autism has a high heritability (>90%).Although certain progress of autism genetic study has been made in the last de-cades and several autism susceptibilit...
【基金】
supported by Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student granted by Ministry of Education of China and National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB529601&2012CB517902)
【更新日期】
2011-10-09
【分类号】
R749.94
【正文快照】
Autism spectrum disorder(ASD)is a group ofneurodevelopmental disorders which share the com-mon feature of severe and pervasive impairment inreciprocal socialization,qualitative impairment incommunication,and repetitive or unusual behav-ior[1].According to