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A Genome‐wide Association Study of Autism Reveals a Common Novel Risk Locus at 5p14.1

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Ma, Deqiong, Salyakina, Daria, Jaworski, James M., Konidari, Ioanna, Whitehead, Patrice L., Andersen, Ashley N., Hoffman, Joshua D., Slifer, Susan H. +13 more·2009·Annals of Human Genetics

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Summary: Although autism is one of the most heritable neuropsychiatric disorders, its underlying genetic architecture has largely eluded description. To comprehensively examine the hypothesis that common variation is important in autism, we performed a genome‐wide association study (GWAS) using a discovery dataset of 438 autistic Caucasian families and the Illumina Human 1M beadchip. 96 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) demonstrated strong association with autism risk (p‐value < 0.0001). The validation of the top 96 SNPs was performed using an independent dataset of 487 Caucasian autism families genotyped on the 550K Illumina BeadChip. A novel region on chromosome 5p14.1 showed significance in both the discovery and validation datasets. Joint analysis of all SNPs in this region identified 8 SNPs having improved p‐values (3.24E‐04 to 3.40E‐06) than in either dataset alone. Our findings demonstrate that in addition to multiple rare variations, part of the complex genetic architecture of autism involves common variation.

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  • The largest GWAS to date (n=7387 cases scanned) did not conclusively identify single variants at genome-wide significance.

    “the largest GWAS to date (n=7387 cases scanned) -while providing compelling evidence for the bulk contribution of common variants -did not conclusively identify single variants at genome-wide significance 5-7 .”

    From Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder (2019) · cites this paper as [6]

    The Results (page not provided) report that no association in this study met genome-wide significance, supporting that part of the claim. But the paper reports 438 discovery families and 457 validation families, not 7,387 cases, and does not identify its study as the largest GWAS to date. The Discussion (page not provided) also notes that combining its data with two additional datasets yielded SNP associations that survived Bonferroni correction. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • The study reports the first common risk variants robustly associated with ASD by more than doubling the discovery sample size compared to previous GWAS.

    “Here we report the first common risk variants robustly associated with ASD by more than doubling the discovery sample size compared to previous GWAS 5-8 .”
  • ASD genomewide association studies have not identified reproducible SNP associations.

    “and have failed to identify reproducible SNP associations (16)(17)(18)(19)(20).”
  • Our results from >2700 trios, together with the results from other published GWAS, bear out the prediction that few if any common variants have an impact on risk exceeding 1.2.

    “Our results from >2700 trios, together with the results from other published GWAS (22,23,34), bear out this prediction.”
  • Early ASD GWAS had low statistical power to robustly identify genome-wide significant loci at effect sizes OR < 1.15.

    “Early GWAS [12, 14–17] were performed using a variety of genotyping arrays, and the independent samples sizes were of low statistical power to robustly identify genome-wide significant (GWS) loci at the lower effect sizes (OR <1.15) [18].”

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Ma, D., Salyakina, D., Jaworski, J. M., Konidari, I., Whitehead, P. L., Andersen, A. N., Hoffman, J. D., Slifer, S. H., Hedges, D. J., Cukier, H. N., Griswold, A. J., McCauley, J. L., Beecham, G. W., Wright, H. H., Abramson, R. K., Martin, E. R., Hussman, J. P., Gilbert, J. R., Cuccaro, M. L., Haines, J. L., & Pericak‐Vance, M. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Miami (US)
  • University of South Carolina (US)
  • John P. Hussman Foundation (US)
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
  • Haines, Jonathan L.
  • Pericak‐Vance, Margaret A.
Venue
Annals of Human Genetics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2009-04-28
Volume
73
Issue
3
Pages
263-273
ISSN
  • 0003-4800 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-1809
OpenAlex
W1993360322
Cited by
221
References
33
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FWCI
13.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annals of Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Hussman Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080647, MH080647)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM080178)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P01NS026630, NS36768, R01NS036768, NS 26630)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, genetic susceptibility loci, common genetic variants, single nucleotide polymorphisms, genetic architecture, neuropsychiatric disorders, family-based association
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Female, Humans, Male, Pedigree, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Genome-Wide Association Study, Young Adult

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