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A Pooled Genome-Wide Association Study of Asperger Syndrome
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 7, p e0131202 (2015), PLoS One, PLoS One, 10, 7, PLoS ONE, PLoS One, 10
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015.
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Abstract
- Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, alongside the presence of unusually repetitive, restricted interests and stereotyped behaviour. Individuals with AS have no delay in cognitive and language development. It is a subset of Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC), which are highly heritable and has a population prevalence of approximately 1%. Few studies have investigated the genetic basis of AS. To address this gap in the literature, we performed a genome-wide pooled DNA association study to identify candidate loci in 612 individuals (294 cases and 318 controls) of Caucasian ancestry, using the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping version 6.0 array. We identified 11 SNPs that had a p-value below 1x10-5. These SNPs were independently genotyped in the same sample. Three of the SNPs (rs1268055, rs7785891 and rs2782448) were nominally significant, though none remained significant after Bonferroni correction. Two of our top three SNPs (rs7785891 and rs2782448) lie in loci previously implicated in ASC. However, investigation of the three SNPs in the ASC genome-wide association dataset from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium indicated that these three SNPs were not significantly associated with ASC. The effect sizes of the variants were modest, indicating that our study was not sufficiently powered to identify causal variants with precision.
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- Neuroinformatics
Male
Genome, Human
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Gene Frequency
Case-Control Studies
Humans
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
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Asperger Syndrome
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GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Research Article
Genome-Wide Association Study
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....b643abb60b4b79b87db659b606d54759