Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Large-scale targeted sequencing identifies risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders

  • Tianyun Wang,
  • Kendra Hoekzema,
  • Davide Vecchio,
  • Huidan Wu,
  • Arvis Sulovari,
  • Bradley P. Coe,
  • Madelyn A. Gillentine,
  • Amy B. Wilfert,
  • Luis A. Perez-Jurado,
  • Malin Kvarnung,
  • Yoeri Sleyp,
  • Rachel K. Earl,
  • Jill A. Rosenfeld,
  • Madeleine R. Geisheker,
  • Lin Han,
  • Bing Du,
  • Chris Barnett,
  • Elizabeth Thompson,
  • Marie Shaw,
  • Renee Carroll,
  • Kathryn Friend,
  • Rachael Catford,
  • Elizabeth E. Palmer,
  • Xiaobing Zou,
  • Jianjun Ou,
  • Honghui Li,
  • Hui Guo,
  • Jennifer Gerdts,
  • Emanuela Avola,
  • Giuseppe Calabrese,
  • Maurizio Elia,
  • Donatella Greco,
  • Anna Lindstrand,
  • Ann Nordgren,
  • Britt-Marie Anderlid,
  • Geert Vandeweyer,
  • Anke Van Dijck,
  • Nathalie Van der Aa,
  • Brooke McKenna,
  • Miroslava Hancarova,
  • Sarka Bendova,
  • Marketa Havlovicova,
  • Giovanni Malerba,
  • Bernardo Dalla Bernardina,
  • Pierandrea Muglia,
  • Arie van Haeringen,
  • Mariette J. V. Hoffer,
  • Barbara Franke,
  • Gerarda Cappuccio,
  • Martin Delatycki,
  • Paul J. Lockhart,
  • Melanie A. Manning,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Ingrid E. Scheffer,
  • Nicola Brunetti-Pierri,
  • Nanda Rommelse,
  • David G. Amaral,
  • Gijs W. E. Santen,
  • Elisabetta Trabetti,
  • Zdeněk Sedláček,
  • Jacob J. Michaelson,
  • Karen Pierce,
  • Eric Courchesne,
  • R. Frank Kooy,
  • The SPARK Consortium,
  • Magnus Nordenskjöld,
  • Corrado Romano,
  • Hilde Peeters,
  • Raphael A. Bernier,
  • Jozef Gecz,
  • Kun Xia,
  • Evan E. Eichler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18723-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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For many neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) risk genes, the significance for mutational burden is unestablished. Here, the authors sequence 125 candidate NDD genes in over 16,000 NDD cases; case-control mutational burden analysis identifies 48 genes with a significant burden of severe ultra-rare mutations.