De novo sequence and copy number variants are strongly associated with Tourette disorder and implicate cell polarity in pathogenesis

S Wang, JD Mandell, Y Kumar, N Sun, MT Morris… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
We previously established the contribution of de novo damaging sequence variants to
Tourette disorder (TD) through whole-exome sequencing of 511 trios. Here, we sequence …

De novo coding variants are strongly associated with Tourette disorder

AJ Willsey, TV Fernandez, D Yu, RA King, A Dietrich… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Whole-exome sequencing (WES) and de novo variant detection have proven a powerful
approach to gene discovery in complex neurodevelopmental disorders. We have completed …

Genome-wide association study of Tourette's syndrome

JM Scharf, D Yu, CA Mathews, BM Neale… - Molecular …, 2013 - nature.com
Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a developmental disorder that has one of the highest familial
recurrence rates among neuropsychiatric diseases with complex inheritance. However, the …

Cross-disorder genome-wide analyses suggest a complex genetic relationship between Tourette's syndrome and OCD

D Yu, CA Mathews, JM Scharf… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome are highly
heritable neurodevelopmental disorders that are thought to share genetic risk factors …

The inheritance of Tourette disorder: a review

DL Pauls, TV Fernandez, CA Mathews… - Journal of obsessive …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Georges Gilles de la Tourette, in describing the syndrome that now bears his name,
observed that the condition aggregated within families. Over the last three decades …

Copy number variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder and tourette syndrome: a cross-disorder study

LM McGrath, D Yu, C Marshall, LK Davis… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS) are heritable
neurodevelopmental disorders with a partially shared genetic etiology. This study represents …

Investigating shared genetic basis across Tourette syndrome and comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders along the impulsivity-compulsivity spectrum

Z Yang, H Wu, PH Lee, F Tsetsos, LK Davis, D Yu… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Tourette syndrome (TS) is often found comorbid with other neurodevelopmental
disorders across the impulsivity-compulsivity spectrum, with attention-deficit/hyperactivity …

The genetic etiology of Tourette syndrome: large-scale collaborative efforts on the precipice of discovery

M Georgitsi, AJ Willsey, CA Mathews, M State… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder that
is characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics. It has a complex etiology with multiple …

Rare copy number variants in tourette syndrome disrupt genes in histaminergic pathways and overlap with autism

TV Fernandez, SJ Sanders, IR Yurkiewicz… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Studies of copy number variation (CNV) have characterized loci and
molecular pathways in a range of neuropsychiatric conditions. We analyzed rare CNVs in …

Transcriptome analysis of the human striatum in Tourette syndrome

JB Lennington, G Coppola, Y Kataoka-Sasaki… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Genome-wide association studies have not revealed any risk-conferring
common genetic variants in Tourette syndrome (TS), requiring the adoption of alternative …