Patent ID: 8003326
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method for diagnosing a predisposition to an autism spectrum disorder in a human individual or a human fetus, the method comprising: (a) detecting in nucleic acids from said human individual or human fetus the presence of a microdeletion of about 500 kb that is flanked by a microduplication of about 100kb to about 147 kb on the chromosome region 16p11.2 between positions 29.5Mb and 30.1 Mb; and correlating the presence of said microdeletion of about 500 kb that is flanked by a microduplication of about 100kb to about 147 kb on the chromosome region 16p11.2 between positions 29.5Mb and 30.1 Mb with a predisposition to an autism spectrum disorder in said human individual or human fetus.