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NEURON
Volume 77, Issue 2, Pages 235-242Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.029
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) repository [U24MH068457]
- Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) Consortium [1U24MH081810]
- Autism Speaks
- Simons Foundation
- Autism Consortium
- NIH [R01MH089208, R01MH089025, R01MH089004, R01MH089175, R01MH089482, P50HD055751, R01MH057881, R01MH061009]
- Lung GO Sequencing Project [HL-102923]
- WHI Sequencing Project [HL-102924]
- Broad GO Sequencing Project [HL-102925]
- Seattle GO Sequencing Project [HL-102926]
- Heart GO Sequencing Project [HL-103010]
- [U54 HG003273]
- [U54 HG003067]
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To characterize the role of rare complete human knockouts in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), we identify genes with homozygous or compound heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) variants (defined as nonsense and essential splice sites) from exome sequencing of 933 cases and 869 controls. We identify a 2-fold increase in complete knockouts of autosomal genes with low rates of LoF variation (<= 5% frequency) in cases and estimate a 3% contribution to ASD risk by these events, confirming this observation in an independent set of 563 probands and 4,605 controls. Outside the pseudoautosomal regions on the X chromosome, we similarly observe a significant 1.5-fold increase in rare hemizygous knockouts in males, contributing to another 2% of ASDs in males. Taken together, these results provide compelling evidence that rare autosomal and X chromosome complete gene knockouts are important inherited risk factors for ASD.
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