Common mechanisms of excitatory and inhibitory imbalance in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders

R Gao, P Penzes - Current molecular medicine, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Schizophrenia (SCZ) are cognitive disorders with
complex genetic architectures but overlapping behavioral phenotypes, which suggests …

Shining a light on CNTNAP2: complex functions to complex disorders

P Rodenas-Cuadrado, J Ho, SC Vernes - European journal of human …, 2014 - nature.com
The genetic basis of complex neurological disorders involving language are poorly
understood, partly due to the multiple additive genetic risk factors that are thought to be …

Genetic overlap between autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

LS Carroll, MJ Owen - Genome medicine, 2009 - Springer
There is strong evidence that genetic factors make substantial contributions to the etiology of
autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, with heritability estimates being at least 80 …

Investigation of dyslexia and SLI risk variants in reading-and language-impaired subjects

DF Newbury, S Paracchini, TS Scerri, L Winchester… - Behavior genetics, 2011 - Springer
Dyslexia (or reading disability) and specific language impairment (or SLI) are common
childhood disorders that show considerable co-morbidity and diagnostic overlaps and have …

Behavioral phenotypes of genetic mouse models of autism

TM Kazdoba, PT Leach… - Genes, Brain and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
More than a hundred de novo single gene mutations and copy‐number variants have been
implicated in autism, each occurring in a small subset of cases. Mutant mouse models with …

The emerging role of synaptic cell-adhesion pathways in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorders

C Betancur, T Sakurai, JD Buxbaum - Trends in neurosciences, 2009 - cell.com
Recent advances in genetics and genomics have unveiled numerous cases of autism
spectrum disorders (ASDs) associated with rare, causal genetic variations. These findings …

Genetic advances in the study of speech and language disorders

DF Newbury, AP Monaco - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
Developmental speech and language disorders cover a wide range of childhood conditions
with overlapping but heterogeneous phenotypes and underlying etiologies. This …

Synaptic abnormalities and cytoplasmic glutamate receptor aggregates in contactin associated protein-like 2/Caspr2 knockout neurons

O Varea, MD Martin-de-Saavedra… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Central glutamatergic synapses and the molecular pathways that control them are emerging
as common substrates in the pathogenesis of mental disorders. Genetic variation in the …

Contact in the genetics of autism and schizophrenia

JPH Burbach, B van der Zwaag - Trends in neurosciences, 2009 - cell.com
Although autism and schizophrenia are considered to be distinct neuropsychiatric
developmental disorders, recent studies indicate that they share genetic factors. The same …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a family with rare deletions in CNTNAP5 and DOCK4 suggests novel risk loci for autism and dyslexia

AT Pagnamenta, E Bacchelli, MV de Jonge, G Mirza… - Biological …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by social,
communication, and behavioral deficits and complex genetic etiology. A recent study of 517 …