Journal
MOLECULAR AUTISM
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9
Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder; Genome-wide association study; Meta-analysis; Genetic correlation; Heritability; Gene-set analysis; Schizophrenia; Neurodevelopment
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Funding
- National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH, USA) [MH109539, MH094432, MH094421]
- ACE Network [MH081754, MH100027]
- Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) is a program of Autism Speaks (USA) [MH081810]
- The Autism Genome Project (AGP) from Autism Speaks (USA) [MH081810]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Genome Canada
- Health Research Board (Ireland) [AUT/2006/1, AUT/2006/2, PD/2006/48]
- Hilibrand Foundation (USA)
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- National Institutes of Health (USA)
- Ontario Genomics Institute
- University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre
- Simons Foundation [SFARI 124827]
- Johns Hopkins [MH081754, MH060007]
- Autism Consortium of Boston
- NLM Family foundation
- NARSAD
- NIMH [MH097849, 5U01MH094432-02]
- National Institute of Health grants [MH52708, MH39437, MH00219, MH00980]
- National Health Medical Research Council [0034328]
- Scottish Rite
- Spunk Fund, Inc.
- Rebecca and Solomon Baker Fund
- APEX Foundation
- National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD)
- endowment fund of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory (Stanford)
- Autism Society of America
- Janet M. Grace Pervasive Developmental Disorders Fund
- The Lundbeck Foundation
- universities and university hospitals of Aarhus and Copenhagen
- Stanley Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [U10DD000180, U10DD000181, U10DD000182, U10DD000183, U10DD000184, U10DD000498]
- Netherlands Scientific Organization [NWO 480-05-003]
- Dutch Brain Foundation
- VU University Amsterdam
- Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing through Science Foundation Ireland
- Autism Genome Project (AGP) from Autism Speaks
- MRC [MR/P005748/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Background: Over the past decade genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been applied to aid in the understanding of the biology of traits. The success of this approach is governed by the underlying effect sizes carried by the true risk variants and the corresponding statistical power to observe such effects given the study design and sample size under investigation. Previous ASD GWAS have identified genome-wide significant (GWS) risk loci; however, these studies were of only of low statistical power to identify GWS loci at the lower effect sizes (odds ratio (OR) < 1.15). Methods: We conducted a large-scale coordinated international collaboration to combine independent genotyping data to improve the statistical power and aid in robust discovery of GWS loci. This study uses genome-wide genotyping data from a discovery sample (7387 ASD cases and 8567 controls) followed by meta-analysis of summary statistics from two replication sets (7783 ASD cases and 11359 controls; and 1369 ASD cases and 137308 controls). Results: We observe a GWS locus at 10q24.32 that overlaps several genes including PITX3, which encodes a transcription factor identified as playing a role in neuronal differentiation and CUEDC2 previously reported to be associated with social skills in an independent population cohort. We also observe overlap with regions previously implicated in schizophrenia which was further supported by a strong genetic correlation between these disorders (Rg = 0.23; P= 9 x10(-6)). We further combined these Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) ASD GWAS data with the recent PGC schizophrenia GWAS to identify additional regions which may be important in a common neurodevelopmental phenotype and identified 12 novel GWS loci. These include loci previously implicated in ASD such as FOXP1 at 3p13, ATP2B2 at 3p25.3, and a 'neurodevelopmental hub' on chromosome 8p11.23. Conclusions: This study is an important step in the ongoing endeavour to identify the loci which underpin the common variant signal in ASD. In addition to novel GWS loci, we have identified a significant genetic correlation with schizophrenia and association of ASD with several neurodevelopmental- related genes such as EXT1, ASTN2, MACROD2, and HDAC4.
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