title: Autism: many genes, common pathways?
abstract: Autism is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental syndrome with a complex genetic etiology. It is still not clear whether autism comprises a vast collection of different disorders akin to intellectual disability or a few disorders sharing common aberrant pathways. Unifying principles among cases of autism are likely to be at the level of brain circuitry in addition to molecular pathways.
authors.affiliation: Neurogenetics Program, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. dhg@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Daniel H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Geschwind
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D015398:Signal Transduction