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| Title |
Mutation screening of melatonin-related genes in patients with autism spectrum disorders
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Genomics, April 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1755-8794-3-10 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lina Jonsson, Elin Ljunggren, Anna Bremer, Christin Pedersen, Mikael Landén, Kent Thuresson, MaiBritt Giacobini, Jonas Melke |
| Abstract |
One consistent finding in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a decreased level of the pineal gland hormone melatonin and it has recently been demonstrated that this decrease to a large extent is due to low activity of the acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase (ASMT), the last enzyme in the melatonin synthesis pathway. Moreover, mutations in the ASMT gene have been identified, including a splice site mutation, that were associated with low ASMT activity and melatonin secretion, suggesting that the low ASMT activity observed in autism is, at least partly, due to variation within the ASMT gene. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 100 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 28 | 26% |
| Unknown | 14 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 32 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 21% |
| Psychology | 12 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown | 20 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 December 2019.
All research outputs
#6,012,903
of 24,673,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Genomics
#259
of 1,342 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,214
of 99,353 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Genomics
#2
of 5 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,342 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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