1. Whole genome sequencing resource identifies 18 new candidate genes for autism spectrum disorder
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Christian R. Marshall, Annette Estes, John Wei, Janet A. Buchanan, Jennifer L. Howe, Christina Chrysler, Weili Li, Tara Paton, Fiona Tsoi, Zhuozhi Wang, Brendan J. Frey, Eric Deneault, Edwin H. Cook, William Van Etten, Stephen W. Scherer, Mohammed Uddin, Mayada Elsabbagh, Emily Kirby, Sylvia Lamoureux, Cheryl Cytrynbaum, Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram, Mathew T. Pletcher, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Wilson W L Sung, Angie Fedele, Daniele Merico, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Ryan K. C. Yuen, Marc Woodbury-Smith, Worrawat Engchuan, Vicki Seifer, Isabel M. Smith, Barbara Kellam, Bonnie Mackinnon Modi, Stephanie Koyanagi, Bridget A. Fernandez, James T. Robinson, Karen Ho, Edward J Higginbotham, Joe Whitney, Krissy A.R. Doyle-Thomas, Beth A. Malow, Susan Walker, Jeremy R. Parr, Louise Gallagher, Rob Nicolson, Jonathan Bingham, Thomas Nalpathamkalam, Lia D’Abate, Sanne Jilderda, Matt Bookman, Jessica Brian, Sarah J. Spence, Ann Thompson, Jonathan Leef, Rosanna Weksberg, Jacob A. S. Vorstman, Tal Savion-Lemieux, Anne Marie Tassé, Peter Szatmari, Alana Iaboni, Xudong Liu, Evdokia Anagnostou, Jeffrey R. MacDonald, Ny Hoang, Mehdi Zarrei, Lizhen Xu, Simon N. Twigger, Robert H. Ring, Stephen R. Dager, Melissa T. Carter, Irene Drmic, Michael J. Szego, Wendy Roberts, Lili Senman, Giovanna Pellecchia, Rohan V. Patel, Sergio L. Pereira, Joachim Hallmayer, David Glazer, Lisa J. Strug, Ada J.S. Chan, and Nicole A. Deflaux
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0301 basic medicine ,Candidate gene ,DNA Copy Number Variations ,Autism Spectrum Disorder ,Neuroscience(all) ,Biology ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,DNA sequencing ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genetic variation ,mental disorders ,Databases, Genetic ,medicine ,Journal Article ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Copy-number variation ,Gene ,Sequence Deletion ,Whole genome sequencing ,Genetics ,Chromosome Aberrations ,General Neuroscience ,Autism spectrum disorders ,medicine.disease ,Phenotype ,Mutagenesis, Insertional ,030104 developmental biology ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Next-generation sequencing ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
We are performing whole genome sequencing (WGS) of families with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to build a resource, named MSSNG, to enable the sub-categorization of phenotypes and underlying genetic factors involved. Here, we report WGS of 5,205 samples from families with ASD, accompanied by clinical information, creating a database accessible in a cloud platform, and through an internet portal with controlled access. We found an average of 73.8 de novo single nucleotide variants and 12.6 de novo insertion/deletions (indels) or copy number variations (CNVs) per ASD subject. We identified 18 new candidate ASD-risk genes such as MED13 and PHF3, and found that participants bearing mutations in susceptibility genes had significantly lower adaptive ability (p=6×10−4). In 294/2,620 (11.2%) of ASD cases, a molecular basis could be determined and 7.2% of these carried CNV/chromosomal abnormalities, emphasizing the importance of detecting all forms of genetic variation as diagnostic and therapeutic targets in ASD.
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- 2017