Whole genome sequencing resource identifies 18 new candidate genes for autism spectrum disorder

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 602-611

  Yuen, Ryan K C ^a   Merico, Daniele ^a,b   Bookman, Matt ^c,d   Howe, Jennifer L ^a   Thiruvahindrapuram, Bhooma ^a   Patel, Rohan V ^a   Whitney, Joe ^a   Deflaux, Nicole ^c,d   Bingham, Jonathan ^c,d   Wang, Zhuozhi ^a   Pellecchia, Giovanna ^a   Buchanan, Janet A ^a   Walker, Susan ^a   Marshall, Christian R ^a,e   Uddin, Mohammed ^a   Zarrei, Mehdi ^a   Deneault, Eric ^a   D'Abate, Lia ^a,f   Chan, Ada J S ^a,f   Koyanagi, Stephanie ^a   Paton, Tara ^a   Pereira, Sergio L ^a   Hoang, Ny ^a,e   Engchuan, Worrawat ^a   Higginbotham, Edward J ^a   Ho, Karen ^a   Lamoureux, Sylvia ^a   Li, Weili ^a   MacDonald, Jeffrey R ^a   Nalpathamkalam, Thomas ^a   Sung, Wilson W L ^a   Tsoi, Fiona J ^a   Wei, John ^a   Xu, Lizhen ^a   Tasse, Anne Marie ^g   Kirby, Emily ^g   Van Etten, William ^h   Twigger, Simon ^h   Roberts, Wendy ^e   Drmic, Irene ^a,e   Jilderda, Sanne ^a,e   Modi, Bonnie Mackinnon ^a,e   Kellam, Barbara ^a   Szego, Michael ^a,i   Cytrynbaum, Cheryl ^e,f,i   Weksberg, Rosanna ^e,f   Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ^j   Woodbury Smith, Marc ^a,k   Brian, Jessica ^l   Senman, Lili ^l   Iaboni, Alana ^l   Doyle Thomas, Krissy ^l   Thompson, Ann ^k   Chrysler, Christina ^k   Leef, Jonathan ^l   Savion Lemieux, Tal ^g   Smith, Isabel M ^m   Liu, Xudong ⁿ   Nicolson, Rob ^o,p   Seifer, Vicki ^q   Fedele, Angie ^q   Cook, Edwin H ^r   Dager, Stephen ^s   Estes, Annette ^t   Gallagher, Louise ^u   Malow, Beth A ^v   Parr, Jeremy R ^w   Spence, Sarah J ^x   Vorstman, Jacob ^y   Frey, Brendan J ^b,i   Robinson, James T ^z   Strug, Lisa J ^a,f   Fernandez, Bridget A ^aa   Elsabbagh, Mayada ^g   Carter, Melissa T ^e,ab   Hallmayer, Joachim ^ac   Knoppers, Bartha M ^ad   Anagnostou, Evdokia ^l   Szatmari, Peter ^e,f,ae   Ring, Robert H ^af   Glazer, David ^c,d   Pletcher, Mathew T ^q   Scherer, Stephen W ^a,f   more..

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Deep Genomics Inc   (Canada)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d VERILY LIFE SCIENCES   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h BioTeam Inc   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l University of Toronto   (Canada)

^m DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁿ QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^o CHILDREN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^q Autism Speaks Inc   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^u TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^v VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^w NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^x BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^z UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^aa MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^ab CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^ac STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^ae CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^af DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DATA BASE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 85014531804     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4524     Document Type: Article

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