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Genetic and Cortical Cell-Type Liability Architecture of Autism.

Thomas Renne, Florian Benitière, Cécile Poulain, Alma Dubuc, Vincent-Raphaël Bourque, Guillaume Huguet, Tomasz Nowakowski, Sébastien Jacquemont

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8 authors.

Thomas RenneCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1401-1806
Florian BenitièreCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Cécile PoulainCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Alma DubucDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-8396-9189
Vincent-Raphaël BourqueCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Guillaume HuguetCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4746-6030
Tomasz NowakowskiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sébastien JacquemontCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6838-8767

Funding

Large-Scale Evaluation of the Effect of Rare Genetic Variants on Psychiatric Symptoms and Cognitive AbilityU01MH119690 · NIMH · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ALMASY, LAURA A., GLAHN, DAVID C · 2019 to 2023
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NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH119690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can result from rare genetic variants interfering with brain development. Whether their effects converge on specific cortical cell types remains unresolved. Previous studies have focused on a narrow set of high-confidence ASD (hcASD) genes, which were enriched in neuronal cell types during prenatal development. By contrast, studies of postnatal cerebral cortex have repeatedly associated ASD with transcriptional changes in both neurons and glia. To comprehensively map ASD genetic liability across cortical cell types, we conducted a functional genetic burden analysis with 124,416 individuals, including ASD probands and unaffected family members. We examined six classes of rare gene-disrupting variants aggregated across a complete spectrum of transcriptomic cell types of the human prefrontal cortex throughout development. We show that cellular liabilities in ASD delineate a broad and developmentally dynamic architecture. Likewise, we uncover high dependency on classes of variants with Loss-of-Function (LoF) and

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