Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Genome-wide rare variant score associates with morphological subtypes of autism spectrum disorder

  • Ada J. S. Chan,
  • Worrawat Engchuan,
  • Miriam S. Reuter,
  • Zhuozhi Wang,
  • Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram,
  • Brett Trost,
  • Thomas Nalpathamkalam,
  • Carol Negrijn,
  • Sylvia Lamoureux,
  • Giovanna Pellecchia,
  • Rohan V. Patel,
  • Wilson W. L. Sung,
  • Jeffrey R. MacDonald,
  • Jennifer L. Howe,
  • Jacob Vorstman,
  • Neal Sondheimer,
  • Nicole Takahashi,
  • Judith H. Miles,
  • Evdokia Anagnostou,
  • Kristiina Tammimies,
  • Mehdi Zarrei,
  • Daniele Merico,
  • Dimitri J. Stavropoulos,
  • Ryan K. C. Yuen,
  • Bridget A. Fernandez,
  • Stephen W. Scherer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34112-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Morphological subtypes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may differ in their genetic bases. Chan et al. develop a method for calculating a patient-level, genome-wide rare variant score and find significant differences in rare and common variant associations between dysmorphic and nondysmorphic ASD groups.