Cited by 95Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchGenetics and Neurodevelopmental DisordersChild Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Identification of Developmental and Behavioral Markers Associated With Genetic Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Open access
Bishop, Somer L., Farmer, Cristan, Bal, Vanessa, Robinson, Elise B., Willsey, A. Jeremy, Werling, Donna M., Havdahl, Karoline Alexandra, Sanders, Stephan J. +1 more·2017·American Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Aside from features associated with risk of neurogenetic syndromes in general (e.g., cognitive impairment), limited progress has been made in identifying phenotype-genotype relationships in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The objective of this study was to extend work in the Simons Simplex Collection by comparing the phenotypic profiles of ASD probands with or without identified de novo loss of function mutations or copy number variants in high-confidence ASD-associated genes or loci. METHOD: Analyses preemptively accounted for documented differences in sex and IQ in affected individuals with de novo mutations by matching probands with and without these genetic events on sex, IQ, and age before comparing them on multiple behavioral domains. RESULTS: Children with de novo mutations (N=112) had a greater likelihood of motor delay during early development (later age at walking), but they were less impaired on certain measures of ASD core symptoms (parent-rated social communication abnormalities and clinician-rated diagnostic certainty about ASD) in later childhood. These children also showed relative strengths in verbal and language abilities, including a smaller discrepancy between nonverbal and verbal IQ and a greater likelihood of having achieved fluent language (i.e., regular use of complex sentences). CONCLUSIONS: Children with ASD with de novo mutations may exhibit a "muted" symptom profile with respect to social communication and language deficits relative to those with ASD with no identified genetic abnormalities. Such findings suggest that examining early milestone differences and standardized testing results may be helpful in etiologic efforts, and potentially in clinical differentiation of various subtypes of ASD, but only if developmental and demographic variables are properly accounted for first.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16101115

Cites

36 of 36 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Existing studies investigating genotype-phenotype associations have been limited to summed scores of core autism features in smaller sample sizes rather than underlying latent dimensions.

    “First, existing studies investigating genotype–phenotype associations have been limited to summed scores of core autism features in smaller sample sizes19–21 rather than the underlying latent dimensions.”

    From Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism (2022) · cites this paper as [21]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [24]Dunn DM Dunn LM Peabody picture vocabulary test: Manual Pearson 2007

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Bishop, S. L., Farmer, C., Bal, V., Robinson, E. B., Willsey, A. J., Werling, D. M., Havdahl, K. A., Sanders, S. J., & Thurm, A.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • From the Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco; the Pediatrics and Developmental Neuroscience Branch, NIMH, Bethesda, Md.; the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Mass.; and the MRC Integrative...
Corresponding author
Bishop, Somer L.
Venue
American Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2017-06-01
Volume
174
Issue
6
Pages
576-585
ISSN
  • 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-7228
OpenAlex
W2592553489
Cited by
92
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4
FWCI
5.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  • University of Bristol (MC_UU_12013/1)
  • National Institutes of Health (5k01mh099286-02, Z99 MH999999)
  • Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12013, MCUU12013/1)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH106934, P50MH106934, K01 MH099286, 1K01MH099286-01A1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, de novo mutations, copy number variation, genotype-phenotype correlation, motor delay, language development, social communication, IQ discrepancy, neurogenetic syndromes, Simons Simplex Collection, developmental milestones, ASD subtypes
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adolescent, Child, Developmental Disabilities, Child, Preschool, DNA Mutational Analysis, Female, Genotype, Humans, Intelligence, Language Development Disorders, Male, Phenotype, Prognosis, Reference Values, Likelihood Functions, Case-Control Studies, DNA Copy Number Variations

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review