Autism spectrum disorder at the crossroad between genes and environment: contributions, convergences, and interactions in ASD developmental pathophysiology

C Cheroni, N Caporale, G Testa - Molecular autism, 2020 - Springer
The complex pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder encompasses interactions
between genetic and environmental factors. On the one hand, hundreds of genes …

An overview of the main genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors involved in autism spectrum disorder focusing on synaptic activity

E Masini, E Loi, AF Vega-Benedetti, M Carta… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects social
interaction and communication, with restricted interests, activity and behaviors. ASD is highly …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

An overview of autism spectrum disorder, heterogeneity and treatment options

A Masi, MM DeMayo, N Glozier, AJ Guastella - Neuroscience bulletin, 2017 - Springer
Since the documented observations of Kanner in 1943, there has been great debate about
the diagnoses, the sub-types, and the diagnostic threshold that relates to what is now known …

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

RK C Yuen, D Merico, M Bookman, JL Howe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We are performing whole-genome sequencing of families with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) to build a resource (MSSNG) for subcategorizing the phenotypes and underlying …

Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics

L de la Torre-Ubieta, H Won, JL Stein… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has
fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological …

From the genetic architecture to synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorder

T Bourgeron - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Genetics studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have identified several risk genes that
are key regulators of synaptic plasticity. Indeed, many of the risk genes that have been …

Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

T Gaugler, L Klei, SJ Sanders, CA Bodea… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A key component of genetic architecture is the allelic spectrum influencing trait variability.
For autism spectrum disorder (herein termed autism), the nature of the allelic spectrum is …

Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders

DJ Weiner, EM Wigdor, S Ripke, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk is influenced by common polygenic and de novo
variation. We aimed to clarify the influence of polygenic risk for ASD and to identify …

Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids

A Amiri, G Coppola, S Scuderi, F Wu, T Roychowdhury… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The human cerebral cortex has undergone an extraordinary increase in
size and complexity during mammalian evolution. Cortical cell lineages are specified in the …