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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the resources provided by the participating AGRE families. This work was supported by the Wilson Family Research Foundation, The Seaver Autism Research Center, and Cure Autism Now. Fellowship support was provided by National Research Service Award NS10692 (JK) and the Genetics Training Program at the University of Michigan (T32 GM07544) (BM).

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    L A Weiss, A Escayg, J A Kearney, M Trudeau, B T MacDonald & M H Meisler
  2. Department of Physiological Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
    M Mori
  3. Department of Psychiatry, Seaver Autism Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    J Reichert & J D Buxbaum

Authors

  1. L A Weiss
  2. A Escayg
  3. J A Kearney
  4. M Trudeau
  5. B T MacDonald
  6. M Mori
  7. J Reichert
  8. J D Buxbaum
  9. M H Meisler

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Correspondence toM H Meisler.

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The AGRE Consortium:22 AGRE Scientific Advisory Board, Chairman, DH Geschwind, MD, PhD, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Members, M Bucan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; WT Brown, MD, PhD, FACMG, NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Long Island, NY; JD Buxbaum, PhD, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York; TC Gilliam, PhD, Columbia Genome Center, New York; DA Greenberg, PhD, Mt Sinai Medical Center, New York; DH Ledbetter, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; B Miller, MD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; SF Nelson, MD, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; J Pevsner, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD; JI Rotter, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; GD Schellenberg, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; CA Sprouse, EdD, Children's National Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; RE Tanzi, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; KC Wilhelmsen, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and AGRE Collaborator: JM Silverman, PhD, Mt Sinai Medical School, New York, NY.

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Weiss, L., Escayg, A., Kearney, J. et al. Sodium channels SCN1A, SCN2A and SCN3A in familial autism.Mol Psychiatry 8, 186–194 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001241

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