Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder

HR Willsey, AJ Willsey, B Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
More than a hundred genes have been identified that, when disrupted, impart large risk for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Current knowledge about the encoded proteins—although …

Neurodevelopmental disorders—the history and future of a diagnostic concept

DJ Morris-Rosendahl, MA Crocq - Dialogues in clinical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes the history of the diagnostic class of neurodevelopmental disorders
(NDDs) up to DSM-5. We further analyze how the development of genetics will transform the …

Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes

B Paulsen, S Velasco, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with hundreds of genes
spanning a wide range of biological functions,,,,–. The alterations in the human brain …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype

D Kim, JM Paggi, C Park, C Bennett… - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
The human reference genome represents only a small number of individuals, which limits its
usefulness for genotyping. We present a method named HISAT2 (hierarchical indexing for …

Changes in access to educational and healthcare services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities during COVID‐19 restrictions

S Jeste, C Hyde, C Distefano… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background COVID‐19 restrictions have significantly limited access to in‐person
educational and healthcare services for all, including individuals with intellectual and …

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates

H Gao, T Hamp, J Ede, JG Schraiber, J McRae… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between
individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting splicing from primary sequence with deep learning

K Jaganathan, SK Panagiotopoulou, JF McRae… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The splicing of pre-mRNAs into mature transcripts is remarkable for its precision, but the
mechanisms by which the cellular machinery achieves such specificity are incompletely …