Links

The Molecular Neuropsychiatry & Development (MiND) Lab at CAMH: http://www.camh.ca/en/research/research_areas/genetics_and_epigenetics/Pages/Molecular-Neuropsychiatry-and-Development.aspx

A blog hosted by a parent of a boy with a PTCHD1 deletion, www.ptchd1.com, is a discussion forum aimed mainly at families.

We have initiated a facebook page for PTCHD1, aimed mainly at families who have a member of members affected by a mutation at this gene: www.facebook.com/PTCHD1, as a forum for discussions, exchange of information, fellowship, etc.:

Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man: http://omim.org/entry/300828 gives a summary of research findings related to the PTCHD1 gene, hosted by Johns Hopkins University.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information is a valuable repository for gene and protein data. Here is the gene entry for PTCHD1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/139411

The Ensembl site also includes information on the PTCHD1 gene: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000165186;r=X:23352133-23422489

Genecards provides useful details about the gene and its encoded protein: http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=PTCHD1

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative also includes information on PTCHD1 on its website: https://gene.sfari.org/GeneDetail/PTCHD1

The Autism Database, AutDB, includes information and links for PTCHD1: http://autism.mindspec.org/GeneDetail/PTCHD1

The Human Protein Reference Database link for PTCHD1: http://www.hprd.org/summary?hprd_id=06548&isoform_id=06548_1&isoform_name=

From the book, The Autisms, by Mary Coleman and Christopher Gillberg: http://books.google.ca/books?id=zMbAZbzxVNAC&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=ptchd1&source=bl&ots=BiCcUV4MVb&sig=Eaw1q2w-rdkRgIJc1Ma9ZLmJ4mo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=abTOU5nlBIbD8QGX_YCwDA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBTgo#v=onepage&q=ptchd1&f=false