The autism-associated chromatin modifier CHD8 regulates other autism risk genes during human neurodevelopment

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cotney, Justin ^a   Muhle, Rebecca A ^a,b   Sanders, Stephan J ^a,c   Liu, Li ^d   Willsey, A Jeremy ^a,c   Niu, Wei ^a,b   Liu, Wenzhong ^a   Klei, Lambertus ^e   Lei, Jing ^d   Yin, Jun ^a   Reilly, Steven K ^a   Tebbenkamp, Andrew T ^a   Bichsel, Candace ^a   Pletikos, Mihovil ^a   Sestan, Nenad ^a   Roeder, Kathryn ^d,f   State, Matthew W ^c   Devlin, Bernie ^e   Noonan, James P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RODENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHD8 GENE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MODIFIER GENE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHD8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84924567722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7404     Document Type: Article

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