Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder
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Grove, Jakob
Als, Thomas D.
Mattheisen, Manuel
Won, Hyejung
Pallesen, Jonatan
Agerbo, Esben
Andreassen, Ole A.
Anney, Richard
Awashti, Swapnil
Belliveau, Rich
Bettella, Francesco
Buxbaum, Joseph D.
Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas
Bækvad-Hansen, Marie
Chambert, Kimberly
Christensen, Jane H.
Dellenvall, Karin
Demontis, Ditte
De Rubeis, Silvia
Devlin, Bernie
Djurovic, Srdjan
Hansen, Christine S.
Hauberg, Mads Engel
Hollegaard, Mads V.
Hope, Sigrun
Hultman, Christina M.
Klei, Lambertus
Maller, Julian
Martin, Joanna
Martin, Alicia R.
Nyegaard, Mette
Nærland, Terje
Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker
Pedersen, Marianne Giørtz
Poterba, Timothy
Pourcain, Beate St
Poulsen, Jesper Buchhave
Qvist, Per
Rehnström, Karola
Reichenberg, Abraham
Reichert, Jennifer
Roeder, Kathryn
Roussos, Panos
Saemundsen, Evald
Sandin, Sven
Satterstrom, F. Kyle
Davey Smith, George
Stefansson, Hreinn
Steinberg, Stacy
Stevens, Christine R.
Sullivan, Patrick F.
Walters, G. Bragi
Xu, Xinyi
Stefansson, Kari
Geschwind, Daniel H.
Nordentoft, Merete
Hougaard, David M.
Werge, Thomas
Mors, Ole
Mortensen, Preben Bo
Børglum, Anders D.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, BUPGEN, Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 23andMe Research Team, Jakob Grove, Stephan Ripke, Thomas D. Als, et al. “Identification of Common Genetic Risk Variants for Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Nature Genetics 51, no. 3 (March 2019): 431–44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0344-8.Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to ASD susceptibility, but to date no individual variants have been robustly associated with ASD. With a marked sample size increase from a unique Danish population resource, we report a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 18,381 ASD cases and 27,969 controls that identifies five genome-wide significant loci. Leveraging GWAS results from three phenotypes with significantly overlapping genetic architectures (schizophrenia, major depression, and educational attainment), seven additional loci shared with other traits are identified at equally strict significance levels. Dissecting the polygenic architecture we find both quantitative and qualitative polygenic heterogeneity across ASD subtypes, in contrast to what is typically seen in other complex disorders. These results highlight biological insights, particularly relating to neuronal function and corticogenesis and establish that GWAS performed at scale will be much more productive in the near term in ASD, just as it has been in a broad range of important psychiatric and diverse medical phenotypes.Other Sources
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454898/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/224774v2
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