De novo mutations in regulatory elements cause neurodevelopmental disorders
Patrick Short, Jeremy F. McRae, Giuseppe Gallone, Alejandro Sifrim, Hyejung Won, Daniel H. Geschwind, Caroline Fiona Wright, Helen V. Firth, David R FitzPatrick, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Matthew E. Hurles, on behalf of the DDD study
The paper identifies de novo mutations in fetal-brain active regulatory elements as a cause of 1-3% of neurodevelopmental disorders in patients without coding variants.
Nature · Mar 1, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics