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ArticleJournal of neurodevelopmental disorders2017

Combined genome-wide linkage and targeted association analysis of head circumference in autism spectrum disorder families.

M Woodbury-Smith, D A Bilder, J Morgan, L Jerominski, T Darlington, T Dyer, A D Paterson, H Coon

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Article in Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

M Woodbury-SmithDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0593-8917
D A BilderDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA.
J MorganDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA.
L JerominskiDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA.
T DarlingtonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA.
T DyerUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Harlingen, TX USA.
A D PatersonProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON Canada.
H CoonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA.
University of Utah · USHospital for Sick Children · CAThe University of Texas Rio Grande Valley · US

Funding

UTAH REGIONAL CANCER CENTERP30CA042014 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KATHARINE S ULLMAN · 1986 to 2026
$72.6M
1/3 - Sequencing Autism Spectrum Disorder Extended PedigreesR01MH094400 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI COON, HILARY · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA042014NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIt has long been recognized that there is an association between enlarged head circumference (HC) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the genetics of HC in ASD is not well understood. In order to investigate the genetic underpinning of HC in ASD, we undertook a genome-wide linkage study of HC followed by linkage signal targeted association among a sample of 67 extended pedigrees with ASD.

methodsHC measurements on members of 67 multiplex ASD extended pedigrees were used as a quantitative trait in a genome-wide linkage analysis. The Illumina 6K SNP linkage panel was used, and analyses were carried out using the SOLAR implemented variance components model. Loci identified in this way formed the target for subsequent association analysis using the Illumina OmniExpress chip and imputed genotypes. A modification of the qTDT was used as implemented in SOLAR.

resultsWe identified a linkage signal spanning 6p21.31 to 6p22.2 (maximum LOD = 3.4). Although targeted association did not find evidence of association with any SNP overall, in one family with the strongest evidence of linkage, there was evidence for association (rs17586672,

conclusionsAlthough this region does not overlap with ASD linkage signals in these same samples, it has been associated with other psychiatric risk, including ADHD, developmental dyslexia, schizophrenia, specific language impairment, and juvenile bipolar disorder. The genome-wide significant linkage signal represents the first reported observation of a potential quantitative trait locus for HC in ASD and may be relevant in the context of complex multivariate risk likely leading to ASD.

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)Genetic associationGenome-wide linkageHead circumference (HC)

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