Exome sequencing of 457 autism families recruited online provides evidence for novel ASD genes
Pamela Feliciano, Xueya Zhou, Irina Astrovskaya, Tychele N. Turner, Tianyun Wang, Leo Brueggeman, Rebecca Barnard, Alexander Hsieh, LeeAnne Green Snyder, Donna Marie Muzny, Aniko Sabo, Richard A. Gibbs, Evan E. Eichler, Brian J. O’Roak, Jacob J. Michaelson, , Brenda Hauf
The paper reports exome sequencing of 457 ASD families, identifying 10.4% with known ASD genes and 3.4% with possibly associated variants, and provides statistical support for 34 ASD risk genes using the TADA framework.
npj Genomic Medicine · Aug 23, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics