Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Cross-tissue integration of genetic and epigenetic data offers insight into autism spectrum disorder

  • Shan V. Andrews,
  • Shannon E. Ellis,
  • Kelly M. Bakulski,
  • Brooke Sheppard,
  • Lisa A. Croen,
  • Irva Hertz-Picciotto,
  • Craig J. Newschaffer,
  • Andrew P. Feinberg,
  • Dan E. Arking,
  • Christine Ladd-Acosta,
  • M. Daniele Fallin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00868-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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“There have been a number of recent epigenetic studies on autism spectrum disorder. Here, the authors integrate genetic and epigenetic data from cord and peripheral blood and also from brain tissues to show the potential of blood-based epigenetic data to provide insights into psychiatric disorders.”