DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY, cilt.52, sa.2, ss.130-138, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
AIMS Over the past decade, genetic tests have become available for numerous heritable disorders, especially those whose inheritance follows the Mendelian model. Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a group of developmental disorders with a strong genetic basis. During the past few years, genetic research in ASDs has been successful in identifying several vulnerability loci and a few cytogenetic abnormalities or single-base mutations implicated in the causation of autism.