Genetic studies in intellectual disability and related disorders

LELM Vissers, C Gilissen, JA Veltman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic factors play a major part in intellectual disability (ID), but genetic studies have been
complicated for a long time by the extreme clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in understanding–genetic basis of intellectual disability

P Chiurazzi, F Pirozzi - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Intellectual disability is the most common developmental disorder characterized by a
congenital limitation in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. It often co-occurs with …

Effectiveness of exome and genome sequencing guided by acuity of illness for diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders

SE Soden, CJ Saunders, LK Willig, EG Farrow… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect more than 3% of children and are attributable
to single-gene mutations at more than 1000 loci. Traditional methods yield molecular …

Diagnostic yield and novel candidate genes by exome sequencing in 152 consanguineous families with neurodevelopmental disorders

MS Reuter, H Tawamie, R Buchert, OH Gebril… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Autosomal recessive inherited neurodevelopmental disorders are highly
heterogeneous, and many, possibly most, of the disease genes are still unknown. Objectives …

Genetics of intellectual disability in consanguineous families

H Hu, K Kahrizi, L Musante, Z Fattahi, R Herwig… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Autosomal recessive (AR) gene defects are the leading genetic cause of intellectual
disability (ID) in countries with frequent parental consanguinity, which account for about …

Mapping autosomal recessive intellectual disability: combined microarray and exome sequencing identifies 26 novel candidate genes in 192 consanguineous families

R Harripaul, N Vasli, A Mikhailov, MA Rafiq… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Approximately 1% of the global population is affected by intellectual disability (ID), and the
majority receive no molecular diagnosis. Previous studies have indicated high levels of …

Targeted next‐generation sequencing analysis of 1,000 individuals with intellectual disability

D Grozeva, K Carss, O Spasic‐Boskovic… - Human …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To identify genetic causes of intellectual disability (ID), we screened a cohort of 986
individuals with moderate to severe ID for variants in 565 known or candidate ID‐associated …

Discovery of four recessive developmental disorders using probabilistic genotype and phenotype matching among 4,125 families

N Akawi, J McRae, M Ansari, M Balasubramanian… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Discovery of most autosomal recessive disease-associated genes has involved analysis of
large, often consanguineous multiplex families or small cohorts of unrelated individuals with …

Exome sequencing of Pakistani consanguineous families identifies 30 novel candidate genes for recessive intellectual disability

S Riazuddin, M Hussain, A Razzaq, Z Iqbal… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Intellectual disability (ID) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder, affecting 1–
3% of the general population. Although research into the genetic causes of ID has recently …

High diagnostic yield of syndromic intellectual disability by targeted next-generation sequencing

F Martínez, A Caro-Llopis, M Roselló, S Oltra… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Intellectual disability is a very complex condition where more than 600 genes
have been reported. Due to this extraordinary heterogeneity, a large proportion of patients …