A GENOTYPING TEST FOR ASSESSING RISK OF AUTISM

摘要

The invention relates to a method of determining a risk of, or of detecting the predisposition to or the presence of autism in a subject, the method comprising detecting the combined presence of risk-associated SNP alleles at multiple loci in a sample from said subject, which method comprises genotyping a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the gene loci of at least HTR5A, MACF1, RBFOX1, ABR, PTPRG, CACNA2D1, GFRA1, DSCAML1, CHRM3, LPPR4, DLG2, SLC9A9 and BASP1.