• DOI:10.1038/nature09146
• Corpus ID: 220906991

Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

@article{Pinto2010FunctionalIO,
  title={Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders},
  author={Dalila Pinto and Alistair T. Pagnamenta and Lambertus Klei and Richard J. L. Anney and Daniele Merico and Regina Regan and Judith M. Conroy and Tiago R. Magalh{\~a}es and Catarina Correia and Brett S. Abrahams and Joana Almeida and Elena Bacchelli and Gary D Bader and Anthony J. Bailey and Gillian Baird and Agatino Battaglia and Thomas P. Berney and Nadia Bolshakova and Sven B{\"o}lte and Patrick F. Bolton and Thomas Bourgeron and Sean Brennan and Jessica A. Brian and Susan E. Bryson and Andrew R. Carson and Guillermo Casallo and Jillian P Casey and Brian HY Chung and Lynne E. Cochrane and Christina Corsello and Emily L. Crawford and Andrew Crossett and Cheryl Cytrynbaum and Geraldine Dawson and Maretha V. de Jonge and Richard Delorme and Irene Drmic and Eftichia Duketis and Frederico Duque and Annette M. Estes and Penny Farrar and Bridget A. Fernandez and Susan E B Folstein and Eric Fombonne and Christine M. Freitag and John R. Gilbert and Christopher Gillberg and Joseph T. Glessner and Jeremy Goldberg and Andrew J. Green and Jonathan Green and Stephen J. Guter and Hakon H. Hakonarson and Elizabeth A. Heron and Matthew J. Hill and Richard James Holt and Jennifer L. Howe and Gillian Hughes and Vanessa Hus and Roberta Igliozzi and Cecilia Kim and Sabine M. Klauck and Alexander Kolevzon and Olena Korvatska and Vlad Kustanovich and Clara Lajonchere and Janine A. Lamb and Magdalena Laskawiec and Marion Leboyer and Ann Le Couteur and Bennett L. Leventhal and Anath Christopher Lionel and Xiao-qing Liu and Catherine Lord and Linda J. Lotspeich and Sabata C. Lund and Elena Maestrini and William J. Mahoney and Carine Mantoulan and Christian R. Marshall and Helen McConachie and Christopher J. McDougle and Jane McGrath and William M. McMahon and Alison K. Merikangas and Ohsuke Migita and Nancy J. Minshew and Ghazala K. Mirza and Jeff Munson and Stanley F. Nelson and Carolyn Noakes and Abdul Noor and Gudrun Nygren and Guiomar Oliveira and Katerina Papanikolaou and Jeremy R Parr and Barbara Parrini and Tara A. Paton and Andrew Pickles and Marion Pilorge and Joseph Piven and Chris Paul Ponting and David J. Posey and Annemarie Poustka and Fritz Poustka and Aparna Prasad and Jiannis Ragoussis and Katy Renshaw and Jessica Rickaby and Wendy Roberts and Kathryn Roeder and Bernadette Rog{\'e} and Michael L. Rutter and Laura J. Bierut and John P. Rice and Jeff Salt and Katherine Sansom and Daisuke Sato and Ricardo Segurado and Ana Filipa Sequeira and Lili Senman and Naisha Shah and Val C. Sheffield and Latha V Soorya and In{\^e}s Sousa and Olaf Stein and Nuala H Sykes and Vera Stoppioni and Christina P Strawbridge and Raffaella Tancredi and Katherine E. Tansey and Bhooma Thiruvahindrapduram and Ann P. Thompson and Susanne A. Thomson and Ana Tryfon and John Tsiantis and Herman van Engeland and John B. Vincent and Fred R. Volkmar and Simon Wallace and Kai Wang and Zhouzhi Wang and Thomas H. Wassink and Caleb Webber and Rosanna Weksberg and Kirsty Wing and Kerstin Wittemeyer and Shawn Wood and Jing Wu and Brian L. Yaspan and Danielle Zurawiecki and Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Joseph. D. Buxbaum and Rita M. Cantor and Edwin H. Cook and Hilary Coon and Michael L Cuccaro and Bernie Devlin and Sean Ennis and Louise Gallagher and Daniel H. Geschwind and Michael Gill and Jonathan L. Haines and Joachim Hallmayer and Judith S Miller and Anthony P. Monaco and John I. Nurnberger and Andrew D. Paterson and Margaret A. Pericak-Vance and Gerard D. Schellenberg and Peter Szatmari and Astrid Moura Vicente and Veronica J. Vieland and Ellen M. Wijsman and Stephen W. Scherer and James S. Sutcliffe and Catalina Betancur},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2010},
  volume={466},
  pages={368-372}
}

• D. Pinto, A. Pagnamenta, +174 authors C. Betancur
• Published 15 July 2010
• Biology
• Nature

The autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of conditions characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction and communication, and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviours. Individuals with an ASD vary greatly in cognitive development, which can range from above average to intellectual disability. Although ASDs are known to be highly heritable (∼90%), the underlying genetic determinants are still largely unknown. Here we analysed the genome-wide characteristics of rare (<1% frequency) copy number variation in ASD using dense genotyping arrays. When comparing 996 ASD individuals of European ancestry to 1,287 matched controls, cases were found to carry a higher global burden of rare, genic copy number variants (CNVs) (1.19 fold, P = 0.012), especially so for loci previously implicated in either ASD and/or intellectual disability (1.69 fold, P = 3.4 × 10-4). Among the CNVs there were numerous de novo and inherited events, sometimes in combination in a given family, implicating many novel ASD genes such as SHANK2, SYNGAP1, DLGAP2 and the X-linked DDX53–PTCHD1 locus. We also discovered an enrichment of CNVs disrupting functional gene sets involved in cellular proliferation, projection and motility, and GTPase/Ras signalling. Our results reveal many new genetic and functional targets in ASD that may lead to final connected pathways.