[HTML][HTML] The foundation and architecture of precision medicine in neurology and psychiatry

H Hampel, P Gao, J Cummings, N Toschi… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Neurological and psychiatric diseases have high degrees of genetic and pathophysiological
heterogeneity, irrespective of clinical manifestations. Traditional medical paradigms have …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation as a missing mechanism for interpretation of disease mutations

B Tsang, I Pritišanac, SW Scherer, AM Moses… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It is unclear how disease mutations impact intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs),
which lack a stable folded structure. These mutations, while prevalent in disease, are …

Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism

JM Fu, FK Satterstrom, M Peng, H Brand, RL Collins… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carry functional mutations rarely
observed in the general population. We explored the genes disrupted by these variants from …

Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in autism spectrum disorder

AM Buch, PE Vértes, J Seidlitz, SH Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The mechanisms underlying phenotypic heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
are not well understood. Using a large neuroimaging dataset, we identified three latent …

A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex

D Antaki, J Guevara, AX Maihofer, M Klein, M Gujral… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is multifactorial, but how
combinations of genetic factors determine risk is unclear. In a large family sample, we show …

Neuronal defects in a human cellular model of 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome

TA Khan, O Revah, A Gordon, SJ Yoon, AK Krawisz… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a highly penetrant and common genetic
cause of neuropsychiatric disease. Here we generated induced pluripotent stem cells from …

[HTML][HTML] Insufficient evidence for “autism-specific” genes

SM Myers, TD Challman, R Bernier, T Bourgeron… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Despite evidence that deleterious variants in the same genes are implicated across multiple
neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, there has been considerable interest …

A framework for an evidence-based gene list relevant to autism spectrum disorder

CP Schaaf, C Betancur, RKC Yuen, JR Parr… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often grouped with other brain-related phenotypes into a
broader category of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). In clinical practice, providers …

Relating pathogenic loss-of-function mutations in humans to their evolutionary fitness costs

I Agarwal, ZL Fuller, SR Myers, M Przeworski - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Causal loss-of-function (LOF) variants for Mendelian and severe complex diseases are
enriched in'mutation intolerant'genes. We show how such observations can be interpreted in …

[HTML][HTML] A genetics-first approach to understanding autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: the 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome

AM Fiksinski, GD Hoftman, JAS Vorstman… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently, increasing numbers of rare pathogenic genetic variants have been identified that
are associated with variably elevated risks of a range of neurodevelopmental outcomes …