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Neurodevelopmental disease genes implicated by de novo mutation and copy number variation morbidity
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We combined de novo mutation (DNM) data from 10,927 individuals with developmental delay and autism to identify 253 candidate neurodevelopmental disease genes with an excess of missense and/or likely gene-disruptive (LGD) mutations. Of these genes, 124 reach exome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10-7) for DNM. Intersecting these results with copy number variation (CNV) morbidity data shows an enrichment for genomic disorder regions (30/253, likelihood ratio (LR) +1.85, P = 0.0017). We identify genes with an excess of missense DNMs overlapping deletion syndromes (for example, KIF1A and the 2q37 deletion) as well as duplication syndromes, such as recurrent MAPK3 missense mutations within the chromosome 16p11.2 duplication, recurrent CHD4 missense DNMs in the 12p13 duplication region, and recurrent WDFY4 missense DNMs in the 10q11.23 duplication region. Network analyses of genes showing an excess of DNMs highlights functional networks, including cell-specific enrichments in the D1+ and D2+ spiny neurons of the striatum.
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“To date, no genes have been identified that, when mutated, confer only ASD risk and not risk for ID or other NDDs.”
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“In fact, 72% of genes predicted to be significant by the two statistical models showed evidence of excess de novo variants in both ASD and ID/DD cohorts.”
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“Although pragmatic in terms of data availability, a significant problem with the cohort-ascertainment-based approach used in the Satterstrom et al.11 and Coe et al.12 studies is the potential bias introduced by the unequal opportunity for each participant to receive each diagnosis (i.e., ASD and ID) due to the lack of uniform phenotyping across studies.”
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“Coe et al.12 also compared the distribution of likely gene-disruptive mutations between ASD- and ID/DD-ascertained cohorts but did not find evidence of ASD specificity for any of the 253 genes they identified as candidate NDD genes based on evidence of excess of de novo mutations through the use of two statistical models.”
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“For example, standardized ASD diagnostic measures were frequently utilized in the ASD cohorts but not in the ID/DD cohorts.11,12”
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“Because of this bias, the phenotypic overlap between the groups is unclear; the prevalence of ASD in several of the ID/DD-ascertained cohorts is not quantified,13, 14, 15,18,19 and the prevalence of ID in the ASD-ascertained cohorts is known only for a minority subset of participants.11,12”
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“In fact, the ID/DD cohorts evaluated in these two studies overlapped almost completely; each study used samples from five previously published studies, and four of the five were the same studies, accounting for 99% of the samples.11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16”
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“Our study is approximately three times larger than a recent meta-analysis of DNMs from a collection of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and/or a developmental disorder28.”
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- Authors
- Coe, B. P., Stessman, H. A. F., Sulovari, A., Geisheker, M. R., Bakken, T. E., Lake, A. M., Dougherty, J. D., Lein, E. S., Hormozdiari, F., Bernier, R. A., & Eichler, E. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Creighton University (US)
- Allen Institute for Brain Science (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eichler, Evan E.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2018-12-17
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 106-116
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC6309590
- OpenAlex
- W2903850738
- Cited by
- 330
- References
- 108
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- FWCI
- 24.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
- Brain Research Foundation
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
- Nature
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH107515, R01MH101221)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007266)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54HD087011)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Keywords
- de novo mutations, copy number variation, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, missense mutations, genomic disorders, KIF1A, ERK1, 16p11.2 duplication, CHD4, gene regulatory networks
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autistic Disorder, Developmental Disabilities, Chromosome Aberrations, Humans, Intellectual Disability, Mutation, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Mice, Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex, DNA Copy Number Variations, Exome, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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