An analytical framework for whole-genome sequence association studies and its implications for autism spectrum disorder

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 727-736

  Werling, Donna M ^a   Brand, Harrison ^b,c,d   An, Joon Yong ^a   Stone, Matthew R ^b   Zhu, Lingxue ^e   Glessner, Joseph T ^b,c,d   Collins, Ryan L ^b,c   Dong, Shan ^a   Layer, Ryan M ^f   Markenscoff Papadimitriou, Eirene ^a   Farrell, Andrew ^f   Schwartz, Grace B ^a   Wang, Harold Z ^b   Currall, Benjamin B ^b,c,d   Zhao, Xuefang ^b,c,d   Dea, Jeanselle ^a   Duhn, Clif ^a   Erdman, Carolyn A ^a   Gilson, Michael C ^a   Yadav, Rachita ^b,c,d   Handsaker, Robert E ^c,d   Kashin, Seva ^c,d   Klei, Lambertus ^g   Mandell, Jeffrey D ^a   Nowakowski, Tomasz J ^a,h   Liu, Yuwen ⁱ   Pochareddy, Sirisha ^j   Smith, Louw ^a   Walker, Michael F ^a   Waterman, Matthew J ^k   He, Xin ⁱ   Kriegstein, Arnold R ^h   Rubenstein, John L ^a   Sestan, Nenad ^j   McCarroll, Steven A ^c,d   Neale, Benjamin M ^b,c,d   Coon, Hilary ^f   Willsey, A Jeremy ^a   Buxbaum, Joseph D ^l   Daly, Mark J ^b,c,d   State, Matthew W ^a   Quinlan, Aaron R ^f   Marth, Gabor T ^f   Roeder, Kathryn ^e,m   Devlin, Bernie ^g   Talkowski, Michael E ^b,c,d   Sanders, Stephan J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE   (United States)

^l MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INDEL MUTATION; PROCEDURES;

ISOPROTEIN;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 85046026156     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0107-y     Document Type: Article

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