Genetic causes and modifiers of autism spectrum disorder

L Rylaarsdam, A Guemez-Gamboa - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental
disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 59 children. ASD is highly genetically heterogeneous …

Sensory perception in autism

CE Robertson, S Baron-Cohen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and little is known about its
neurobiology. Much of autism research has focused on the social, communication and …

The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families

M Cirnigliaro, TS Chang, SA Arteaga… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a complex genetic architecture involving contributions
from both de novo and inherited variation. Few studies have been designed to address the …

An overview of autism spectrum disorder, heterogeneity and treatment options

A Masi, MM DeMayo, N Glozier, AJ Guastella - Neuroscience bulletin, 2017 - Springer
Since the documented observations of Kanner in 1943, there has been great debate about
the diagnoses, the sub-types, and the diagnostic threshold that relates to what is now known …

[HTML][HTML] Defining the genetic, genomic, cellular, and diagnostic architectures of psychiatric disorders

PF Sullivan, DH Geschwind - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Studies of the genetics of psychiatric disorders have become one of the most exciting and
fast-moving areas in human genetics. A decade ago, there were few reproducible findings …

Inherited and de novo genetic risk for autism impacts shared networks

EK Ruzzo, L Pérez-Cano, JY Jung, L Wang… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
We performed a comprehensive assessment of rare inherited variation in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) by analyzing whole-genome sequences of 2,308 individuals from families …

Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics

L de la Torre-Ubieta, H Won, JL Stein… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has
fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological …

The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder

I Iossifov, BJ O'roak, SJ Sanders, M Ronemus… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Whole exome sequencing has proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the genetic
architecture of human disease. Here we apply it to more than 2,500 simplex families, each …

From the genetic architecture to synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorder

T Bourgeron - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Genetics studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have identified several risk genes that
are key regulators of synaptic plasticity. Indeed, many of the risk genes that have been …

Genetic studies in intellectual disability and related disorders

LELM Vissers, C Gilissen, JA Veltman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic factors play a major part in intellectual disability (ID), but genetic studies have been
complicated for a long time by the extreme clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Recently …