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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2015

The phenotypic manifestations of rare genic CNVs in autism spectrum disorder.

A K Merikangas, R Segurado, E A Heron, R J L Anney, A D Paterson, E H Cook, D Pinto, S W Scherer, P Szatmari, M Gill and 2 more

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

A K MerikangasDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
R SeguradoCentre for Support and Training in Analysis and Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
E A HeronDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
R J L AnneyDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
A D PatersonProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
E H CookInstitute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
D PintoDepartments of Psychiatry, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Seaver Autism Center, The Mindich Child Health & Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
S W SchererDepartment of Molecular Genetics, The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
P SzatmariThe Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
M GillDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
A P CorvinDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
L GallagherDepartment of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Trinity College Dublin · IEHospital for Sick Children · CAChild Health and Development Institute · USSickKids Foundation · CAUniversity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

CIHRMedical Research Council MR/L010305/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant evidence exists for the association between copy number variants (CNVs) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); however, most of this work has focused solely on the diagnosis of ASD. There is limited understanding of the impact of CNVs on the 'sub-phenotypes' of ASD. The objective of this paper is to evaluate associations between CNVs in differentially brain expressed (DBE) genes or genes previously implicated in ASD/intellectual disability (ASD/ID) and specific sub-phenotypes of ASD. The sample consisted of 1590 cases of European ancestry from the Autism Genome Project (AGP) with a diagnosis of an ASD and at least one rare CNV impacting any gene and a core set of phenotypic measures, including symptom severity, language impairments, seizures, gait disturbances, intelligence quotient (IQ) and adaptive function, as well as paternal and maternal age. Classification analyses using a non-parametric recursive partitioning method (random forests) were employed to define sets of phenotypic characteristics that best classify the CNV-defined groups. There was substantial variation in the classification accuracy of the two sets of genes. The best variables for classification were verbal IQ for the ASD/ID genes, paternal age at birth for the DBE genes and adaptive function for de novo CNVs. CNVs in the ASD/ID list were primarily associated with communication and language domains, whereas CNVs in DBE genes were related to broader manifestations of adaptive function. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the associations between sub-phenotypes and CNVs genome-wide in ASD. This work highlights the importance of examining the diverse sub-phenotypic manifestations of CNVs in ASD, including the specific features, comorbid conditions and clinical correlates of ASD that comprise underlying characteristics of the disorder.

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PhenotypeAdolescentAdultAgedAnalysis of VarianceAutism Spectrum DisorderChildren with DisabilitiesDNA Copy Number VariationsFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedParentsPsychiatric Status Rating Scales

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PMID25421404
PMCPMC4759095
OpenAlexW2163081943

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