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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2022

Maternal pregnancy-related infections and autism spectrum disorder-the genetic perspective.

Ron Nudel, Wesley K Thompson, Anders D Børglum, David M Hougaard, Preben B Mortensen, Thomas Werge, Merete Nordentoft, Michael E Benros

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Ron NudelCORE-Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2309-011X
Wesley K ThompsoniPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark.
Anders D BørglumiPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-8627-7219
David M HougaardiPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-5928-3517
Preben B MortenseniPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark.
Thomas WergeiPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-1829-0766
Merete NordentoftCORE-Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michael E BenrosCORE-Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Michael.Eriksen.Benros@regionh.dk.ORCID 0000-0003-4939-9465

Funding

2/4-Psychiatric GWAS Consortium: Genomic Follow-Up Next-Gen Sequencing & GenotypiU01MH094432 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DALY, MARK JOSEPH · 2012 to 2015
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NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH094432
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a group of neurodevelopmental disorders which include deficits in behavior, social interaction and communication. ASD has a complex genetic architecture, and it is also influenced by certain environmental exposures. Both types of predisposing factors may be related to immunological mechanisms, involving, for example, immune system genes and infections. Past studies have shown an association between infections occurring during the pregnancy in the mother and increased risk of ASD in the child, an observation which has received recent support from experimental animal studies of ASD-like behavior. The aim of this study was to study the genetic contribution to this effect. We employed genetic correlation analyses across potential ASD subtypes stratified on the basis of maternal pregnancy-related infections within the iPSYCH ASD case-cohort sample, as well as a case-case GWAS. We validated the trends of the genetic correlation analyses observed in our sample using GWAS summary statistics from the PGC ASD study (excluding iPSYCH). The genetic correlation between ASD with a history of maternal pregnancy-related infections and ASD without a history of maternal infections in iPSYCH was r

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAnimalsCohort StudiesCommunicationFemaleHumansMothersPhenotypePregnancy

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PMID35974006
PMCPMC9381559

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