A Polymorphism of CNTNAP2 Gene is Related to Structural Language Skills in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Although language impairment is not a core symptom of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it is known that about 75% of children with ASD have a co-occurring language deficit, which may vary from severely impaired language to slightly impaired. At the same time, the biological / genetic basis of these impairments is still not clearly understood. Recent studies have shown that the language profiles in ASD population can be associated with a number of different genetic mechanisms, given the high varia