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 …

Structural variation in the sequencing era

SS Ho, AE Urban, RE Mills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying structural variation (SV) is essential for genome interpretation but has been
historically difficult due to limitations inherent to available genome technologies. Detection …

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 …

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 …

Structural variation in the 3D genome

M Spielmann, DG Lupiáñez, S Mundlos - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Structural and quantitative chromosomal rearrangements, collectively referred to as
structural variation (SV), contribute to a large extent to the genetic diversity of the human …

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 …

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

V Pejaver, J Urresti, J Lugo-Martinez, KA Pagel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying pathogenic variants and underlying functional alterations is challenging. To this
end, we introduce MutPred2, a tool that improves the prioritization of pathogenic amino acid …

Recent ultra-rare inherited variants implicate new autism candidate risk genes

AB Wilfert, TN Turner, SC Murali, PH Hsieh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Autism is a highly heritable complex disorder in which de novo mutation (DNM) variation
contributes significantly to risk. Using whole-genome sequencing data from 3,474 families …

Targeted sequencing identifies 91 neurodevelopmental-disorder risk genes with autism and developmental-disability biases

HAF Stessman, BO Xiong, BP Coe, T Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Gene-disruptive mutations contribute to the biology of neurodevelopmental disorders
(NDDs), but most of the related pathogenic genes are not known. We sequenced 208 …

Whole-genome deep-learning analysis identifies contribution of noncoding mutations to autism risk

J Zhou, CY Park, CL Theesfeld, AK Wong, Y Yuan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We address the challenge of detecting the contribution of noncoding mutations to disease
with a deep-learning-based framework that predicts the specific regulatory effects and the …