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Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism
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The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we show that analysis of rare coding variation in 3,871 autism cases and 9,937 ancestry-matched or parental controls implicates 22 autosomal genes at a false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05, plus a set of 107 autosomal genes strongly enriched for those likely to affect risk (FDR < 0.30). These 107 genes, which show unusual evolutionary constraint against mutations, incur de novo loss-of-function mutations in over 5% of autistic subjects. Many of the genes implicated encode proteins for synaptic formation, transcriptional regulation and chromatin-remodelling pathways. These include voltage-gated ion channels regulating the propagation of action potentials, pacemaking and excitability-transcription coupling, as well as histone-modifying enzymes and chromatin remodellers-most prominently those that mediate post-translational lysine methylation/demethylation modifications of histones.
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“we observe a 2-fold enrichment of de novo PTVs in highly constrained genes in affected females (n = 1,097) versus affected males (n = 5,333) (p = 3 3 10 6”
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“The application of this approach to exomes or whole genomes in large family samples has since become the most effective strategy for identifying ASD susceptibility genes (De Rubeis et al., 2014; Iossifov et al., 2014; Sanders et al., 2015; Satterstrom et al., 2018).”
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“where variants in the underlying genes are associated with epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, or intellectual disability (De Rubeis et al., 2014; Russell et al., 2014; Sadybekov et al., 2017; Shoubridge et al., 2010; Yang et al., 2014”
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“Notably, 12 of the genes DAWN previously predicted as plausibly contributing to risk (De Rubeis et al., 2014) were identified as new TADA genes here (enrichment p = 8.4 3 10 11 ; OR = 16.4).”
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“Past analyses have identified two major functional groups of ASD genes: those involved in gene expression regulation (GER), including chromatin regulators and transcription factors, and those involved in neuronal communication (NC), including synaptic function (De Rubeis et al., 2014).”
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“Large scale genetic screenings have revealed that many of the identified top-ranking autism risk factors are genes implicated in synaptic homeostasis, transcriptional regulation and chromatin remodeling pathways 140–142.”
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“In humans, mutations in MAPK3 [92] and TAOK2 [93, 94] but not in KCTD13 [85, 95] have been found in ASD cases.”
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“Missense variants in MAPK3 are identified in ASD probands [85, 92], but no loss of function (LoF) MAPK3 mutations have been reported in ASD, leaving the direct link to ASD uncertain.”
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“We also demonstrated that the genetic architecture in this self-reported cohort is similar to published, clinically confirmed ASD cohorts.3,4,7”
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“in ASC case-control samples,7 LGD variants in ITSN1 were also identified in the controls (three in 5397 ASC controls and comparable with the cumulative AF of 2.5e−4 in gnomAD v2.1), although they were still overrepresented in cases (two in 1601 cases).”
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“Finally, exome sequencing of simplex libraries has repeatedly pointed to CACNA1D, the pore-forming subunit of another L-type channel, as another ASD-associated gene (De Rubeis et al., 2014).”
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“Changes in the levels of DNA methylation, histone modifications and changes in non-coding RNA (ncRNA) function are common in disease, as are mutations in epigenetic components 57,125 .”
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“Transmitted variants that disrupt protein function can also have a strong influence on risk when inherited and acting dominantly (odds ratios ∼3) (26) or if resulting in biallelic disruption and acting in a recessive (34,35) or X-linked (34) manner (odds ratio above 2).”
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“such rare high-confidence mutations tend to be significantly enriched in genes involved in synaptic functions, transcriptional regulation, and chromatin remodeling functions, and/or are downstream targets of the fragile X syndrome protein (FMRP) complex.1, 3”
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“Albeit rare, de novo mutations have emerged as substantial contributors to ASD risk [83, 165, 166, 254, 261, 309].”
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“Chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 8 (CHD8), encoding a chromatin modifying gene on chromosome 14q11.2, is one of the high-penetrance ASD risk genes recently identified by sequencing studies [83, 165, 261, 347].”
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“RBFOX targets are also frequently dysregulated in autism, highlighting the critical role of alternative splicing in brain development and function (De Rubeis et al., 2014; Voineagu et al., 2011; Weyn-Vanhentenryck et al., 2014).”
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“Alterations in other genes implicated in E/T coupling have been observed before in ASD individuals and include Ca2+ signaling components such as the voltage-dependent channels Cav1.2 (CACNA1C), Cav1.3 (CACNA1D) and the α-δ auxiliary subunit of L-type voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (CACNA2D3) [102, 103].”
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- Study, T. D., De Rubeis, S., Autism, H. M. C. F., UK10K Consortium, The Autism Sequencing Consortium, He, X., Goldberg, A. P., Poultney, C. S., Samocha, K., Ercument Cicek, A., Kou, Y., Liu, L., Fromer, M., Walker, S., Singh, T., Klei, L., Kosmicki, J., Fu, S.-C., Aleksic, B., Biscaldi, M., Bolton, P. F., Brownfeld, J. M., Cai, J., Campbell, N. G., Carracedo, A., Chahrour, M. H., Chiocchetti, A. G., Coon, H., Crawford, E. L., Crooks, L., Curran, S. R., Dawson, G., Duketis, E., Fernandez, B. A., Gallagher, L., Geller, E., Guter, S. J., Sean Hill, R., Ionita-Laza, I., Jimenez Gonzalez, P., Kilpinen, H., Klauck, S. M., Kolevzon, A., Lee, I., Lei, J., Lehtimäki, T., Lin, C.-F., Ma’ayan, A., Marshall, C. R., McInnes, A. L., Neale, B., Owen, M. J., Ozaki, N., Parellada, M., Parr, J. R., Purcell, S., Puura, K., Rajagopalan, D., Rehnström, K., Reichenberg, A., Sabo, A., Sachse, M., Sanders, S. J., Schafer, C., Schulte-Rüther, M., Skuse, D., Stevens, C., Szatmari, P., Tammimies, K., Valladares, O., Voran, A., Wang, L.-S., Weiss, L. A., Jeremy Willsey, A., Yu, T. W., Yuen, R. K. C., Cook, E. H., Freitag, C. M., Gill, M., Hultman, C. M., Lehner, T., Palotie, A., Schellenberg, G. D., Sklar, P., State, M. W., Sutcliffe, J. S., Walsh, C. A., Scherer, S. W., Zwick, M. E., Barrett, J. C., Cutler, D. J., Roeder, K., Devlin, B., Daly, M. J., & Buxbaum, J. D.
- Affiliations
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- King's College London (GB)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
- Harvard University (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- University of Utah (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Memorial University of Newfoundland (CA)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- Fimlab (Finland) (FI)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Nagoya University (JP)
- Tampere University Hospital (FI)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University College London (GB)
- National Health Service (GB)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Daly, Mark J.
- Buxbaum, Joseph D.
- ORCID
- He, Xin
- Goldberg, Arthur P.
- Samocha, Kaitlin
- Kou, Yan
- Liu, Li
- Fromer, Menachem
- Singh, Tarjinder
- Klei, Lambertus
- Kosmicki, Jack
- Fu, Shih-Chen
- Bolton, Patrick F.
- Chahrour, Maria H.
- Chiocchetti, Andreas G.
- Coon, Hilary
- Crooks, Lucy
- Curran, Sarah R.
- Fernandez, Bridget A.
- Gallagher, Louise
- Geller, Evan
- Guter, Stephen J.
- Kilpinen, Helena
- Kolevzon, Alexander
- Lee, Irene
- Lei, Jing
- Lehtimäki, Terho
- Lin, Chiao-Feng
- Ma’ayan, Avi
- Marshall, Christian R.
- Neale, Benjamin
- Owen, Michael J.
- Ozaki, Norio
- Parellada, Mara
- Parr, Jeremy R.
- Purcell, Shaun
- Puura, Kaija
- Reichenberg, Abraham
- Sabo, Aniko
- Sanders, Stephan J.
- Skuse, David
- Stevens, Christine
- Tammimies, Kristiina
- Valladares, Otto
- Wang, Li-San
- Weiss, Lauren A.
- Yu, Timothy W.
- Yuen, Ryan K. C.
- Cook, Edwin H.
- Freitag, Christine M.
- Gill, Michael
- Hultman, Christina M.
- Lehner, Thomas
- Palotie, Aarno
- Schellenberg, Gerard D.
- Sklar, Pamela
- State, Matthew W.
- Sutcliffe, James S.
- Walsh, Christopher A.
- Scherer, Stephen W.
- Zwick, Michael E.
- Barrett, Jeffrey C.
- Cutler, David J.
- Roeder, Kathryn
- Devlin, Bernie
- Daly, Mark J.
- Buxbaum, Joseph D.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-10-29
- Volume
- 515
- Issue
- 7526
- Pages
- 209-215
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4402723
- OpenAlex
- W2108994842
- Cited by
- 2,746
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 151 · 2025: 198 · 2024: 224 · 2023: 215 · 2022: 234 · 2021: 273 · 2020: 290 · 2019: 258 · 2018: 213 · 2017: 264 · 2016: 229 · 2015: 183 · 2014: 10
- FWCI
- 127.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
- RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
- RUNA. Repositorio Institucional del Sergas (Servicio Gallego de Salud (SERGAS)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Autism Speaks
- Wellcome Trust (091986, WT 098051, WT091310)
- Health Research Board
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (UL1TR000445, HD15052)
- Broad Institute
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0510-10268, HICF-1009-003, PI13/01136, WT098051)
- Meath Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (5rc2mh089952-02, PI13/01136, UL1TR000445, MH057881, HG003067, HD-15052, HD055751, RR024975)
- Medical Research Council (MR/L010305/1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH100209, R01MH061009, R01MH083565, R01MH077139, U01MH100229, R01MH097849, MH095034, RC2-MH089952, R01MH094400, R37MH057881, R01MH089208, U01MH100239, MH089482, MH057881, R01MH095034, R01MH089482, MH077139, MH061009, R01MH095797, U01MH100233)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG003067, T32HG002295)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS073601)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024975)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P30HD015052, P50HD055751, P30 HD-15052)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, rare coding variants, synaptic genes, transcriptional regulation, chromatin remodeling, histone lysine methylation, voltage-gated ion channels, evolutionary constraints, autism risk genes, exome sequencing, missense mutations, copy number variation, histone-modifying enzymes
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Chromatin, Female, Humans, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Nerve Net, Synapses, Transcription, Genetic, Odds Ratio, Germ-Line Mutation, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mutation, Missense, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Exome
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