The complexity of a linkage region. The homozygous region is indicated at the top, and candidate genes in the region are highlighted. The region containing the ST3GAL3 gene is part of a de novo deletion found in two independent patients with autism and intellectual disabilitiy in the DECIPHER database.
Ingo Helbig
Child Neurology Fellow and epilepsy genetics researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA and Department of Neuropediatrics, Kiel, Germany