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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2014

A scoring strategy combining statistics and functional genomics supports a possible role for common polygenic variation in autism.

Jérôme Carayol, Gerard D Schellenberg, Beth Dombroski, Claire Amiet, Bérengère Génin, Karine Fontaine, Francis Rousseau, Céline Vazart, David Cohen, Thomas W Frazier and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  3. Bio-collections in autism research.Molecular autism · 2017
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13 authors.

Jérôme CarayolIntegraGen Evry, France.
Gerard D SchellenbergDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Beth DombroskiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Claire AmietIntegraGen Evry, France.
Bérengère GéninIntegraGen Evry, France.
Karine FontaineIntegraGen Evry, France.
Francis RousseauIntegraGen Evry, France.
Céline VazartIntegraGen Evry, France.
David CohenGroupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AP-HP, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France.
Thomas W FrazierCenter for Pediatric Behavioral Health and Center for Autism, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA.
Antonio Y HardanDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA.
Geraldine DawsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA.
Thomas Rio FrioIntegraGen Evry, France.

Funding

UW Autism Center of ExcellenceP50HD055782 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KING, BRYAN H · 2007 to 2011
$11.0M
Center for Genomic and Phenomic Studies in AutismU24MH081810 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI LAJONCHERE, CLARA M · 2007 to 2011
$8.3M
3/3-Sequencing Autism Spectrum Disorder Extended PedigreesR01MH094382 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SCHELLENBERG, GERARD DAVID · 2012 to 2016
$794k
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD055782NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094382NIMH NIH HHS U24 MH081810
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are highly heritable complex neurodevelopmental disorders with a 4:1 male: female ratio. Common genetic variation could explain 40-60% of the variance in liability to autism. Because of their small effect, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have only identified a small number of individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To increase the power of GWASs in complex disorders, methods like convergent functional genomics (CFG) have emerged to extract true association signals from noise and to identify and prioritize genes from SNPs using a scoring strategy combining statistics and functional genomics. We adapted and applied this approach to analyze data from a GWAS performed on families with multiple children affected with autism from Autism Speaks Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE). We identified a set of 133 candidate markers that were localized in or close to genes with functional relevance in ASD from a discovery population (545 multiplex families); a gender specific genetic score (GS) based on these common variants explained 1% (P = 0.01 in males) and 5% (P = 8.7 × 10(-7) in females) of genetic variance in an independent sample of multiplex families. Overall, our work demonstrates that prioritization of GWAS data based on functional genomics identified common variants associated with autism and provided additional support for a common polygenic background in autism.

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autismcommon variantsfunctional genomicsgenetic scoregenetic variancepolygenic model

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