Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

Richard J.L. Anney; Stephan Ripke; Verneri Anttila; Jakob Grove; Peter Holmans; Hailiang Huang; Lambertus Klei; Phil H. Lee; Sarah E. Medland; Benjamin Neale; Elise Robinson; Lauren A. Weiss; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Timothy W. Yu; Kerstin Wittemeyer; A. Jeremy Willsey; Ellen M. Wijsman; Thomas Werge; Thomas H. Wassink; Regina Waltes; Christopher A. Walsh; Simon Wallace; Jacob A.S. Vorstman; Veronica J. Vieland; Astrid M. Vicente; Herman Vanengeland; Kathryn Tsang; Ann P. Thompson; Peter Szatmari; Oscar Svantesson; Stacy Steinberg; Kari Stefansson; Hreinn Stefansson; Matthew W. State; Latha Soorya; Teimuraz Silagadze; Stephen W. Scherer; Gerard D. Schellenberg; Sven Sandin; Stephan J. Sanders; Evald Saemundsen; Guy A. Rouleau; Bernadette Rogé; Kathryn Roeder; Wendy Roberts; Jennifer Reichert; Abraham Reichenberg; Karola Rehnström; Regina Regan; Fritz Poustka; Christopher S. Poultney; Joseph Piven; Dalila Pinto; Margaret A. Pericak-Vance; Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic; Marianne Giørtz Pedersen; Carsten Bøcker Pedersen; Andrew D. Paterson; Jeremy R. Parr; Alistair T. Pagnamenta; Guiomar Oliveira; John I. Nurnberger; Merete Nordentoft; Michael T. Murtha; Susana Mouga; Preben Bo Mortensen; Ole Mors; Eric M. Morrow; Daniel Moreno-De-Luca; Anthony P. Monaco; Nancy Minshew; Alison Merikangas; William M. McMahon; Susan G. McGrew; Manuel Mattheisen; Igor Martsenkovsky; Donna M. Martin; Shrikant M. Mane; Pall Magnusson; Tiago Magalhaes; Elena Maestrini; Jennifer K. Lowe; Catherine Lord; Pat Levitt; Christa Lese Martin; David H. Ledbetter; Marion Leboyer; Ann S. Lecouteur; Christine Ladd-Acosta; Alexander Kolevzon; Sabine M. Klauck; Suma Jacob; Bozenna Iliadou; Christina M. Hultman; David M. Hougaard; Irva Hertz-Picciotto; Robert Hendren; Christine Søholm Hansen; Jonathan L. Haines; Stephen J. Guter; Dorothy E. Grice; Jonathan M. Green; Andrew Green; Arthur P. Goldberg; Christopher Gillberg; John Gilbert; Louise Gallagher; Christine M. Freitag; Eric Fombonne; Susan E. Folstein; Bridget Fernandez; M. Daniele Fallin; A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek; Sean Ennis; Frederico Duque; Eftichia Duketis; Richard Delorme; Silvia Derubeis; Maretha V. Dejonge; Geraldine Dawson; Michael L. Cuccaro; Catarina T. Correia; Judith Conroy; Ines C. Conceição; Andreas G. Chiocchetti; Patrícia B.S. Celestino-Soper; Jillian Casey; Rita M. Cantor; Cátia Café; Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm; Sean Brennan; Thomas Bourgeron; Patrick F. Bolton; Sven Bölte; Nadia Bolshakova; Catalina Betancur; Raphael Bernier; Arthur L. Beaudet; Agatino Battaglia; Vanessa H. Bal; Gillian Baird; Anthony J. Bailey; Marie Bækvad-Hansen; Joel S. Bader; Elena Bacchelli; Evdokia Anagnostou; David Amaral; Joana Almeida; Anders D. Børglum; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Aravinda Chakravarti; Edwin H. Cook; Hilary Coon; Daniel H. Geschwind; Michael Gill; Hakon Hakonarson; Joachim Hallmayer; Aarno Palotie; Susan Santangelo; James S. Sutcliffe; Dan E. Arking; Bernie Devlin; Mark J. Daly

doi:10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

Richard J.L. Anney^*, Stephan Ripke, Verneri Anttila, Jakob Grove, Peter Holmans, Hailiang Huang, Lambertus Klei, Phil H. Lee, Sarah E. Medland, Benjamin Neale, Elise Robinson, Lauren A. Weiss, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Timothy W. Yu, Kerstin Wittemeyer, A. Jeremy Willsey, Ellen M. Wijsman, Thomas Werge, Thomas H. Wassink, Regina WaltesChristopher A. Walsh, Simon Wallace, Jacob A.S. Vorstman, Veronica J. Vieland, Astrid M. Vicente, Herman Vanengeland, Kathryn Tsang, Ann P. Thompson, Peter Szatmari, Oscar Svantesson, Stacy Steinberg, Kari Stefansson, Hreinn Stefansson, Matthew W. State, Latha Soorya, Teimuraz Silagadze, Stephen W. Scherer, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Sven Sandin, Stephan J. Sanders, Evald Saemundsen, Guy A. Rouleau, Bernadette Rogé, Kathryn Roeder, Wendy Roberts, Jennifer Reichert, Abraham Reichenberg, Karola Rehnström, Regina Regan, Fritz Poustka, Christopher S. Poultney, Joseph Piven, Dalila Pinto, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic, Marianne Giørtz Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Andrew D. Paterson, Jeremy R. Parr, Alistair T. Pagnamenta, Guiomar Oliveira, John I. Nurnberger, Merete Nordentoft, Michael T. Murtha, Susana Mouga, Preben Bo Mortensen, Ole Mors, Eric M. Morrow, Daniel Moreno-De-Luca, Anthony P. Monaco, Nancy Minshew, Alison Merikangas, William M. McMahon, Susan G. McGrew, Manuel Mattheisen, Igor Martsenkovsky, Donna M. Martin, Shrikant M. Mane, Pall Magnusson, Tiago Magalhaes, Elena Maestrini, Jennifer K. Lowe, Catherine Lord, Pat Levitt, Christa Lese Martin, David H. Ledbetter, Marion Leboyer, Ann S. Lecouteur, Christine Ladd-Acosta, Alexander Kolevzon, Sabine M. Klauck, Suma Jacob, Bozenna Iliadou, Christina M. Hultman, David M. Hougaard, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Robert Hendren, Christine Søholm Hansen, Jonathan L. Haines, Stephen J. Guter, Dorothy E. Grice, Jonathan M. Green, Andrew Green, Arthur P. Goldberg, Christopher Gillberg, John Gilbert, Louise Gallagher, Christine M. Freitag, Eric Fombonne, Susan E. Folstein, Bridget Fernandez, M. Daniele Fallin, A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek, Sean Ennis, Frederico Duque, Eftichia Duketis, Richard Delorme, Silvia Derubeis, Maretha V. Dejonge, Geraldine Dawson, Michael L. Cuccaro, Catarina T. Correia, Judith Conroy, Ines C. Conceição, Andreas G. Chiocchetti, Patrícia B.S. Celestino-Soper, Jillian Casey, Rita M. Cantor, Cátia Café, Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm, Sean Brennan, Thomas Bourgeron, Patrick F. Bolton, Sven Bölte, Nadia Bolshakova, Catalina Betancur, Raphael Bernier, Arthur L. Beaudet, Agatino Battaglia, Vanessa H. Bal, Gillian Baird, Anthony J. Bailey, Marie Bækvad-Hansen, Joel S. Bader, Elena Bacchelli, Evdokia Anagnostou, David Amaral, Joana Almeida, Anders D. Børglum, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Aravinda Chakravarti, Edwin H. Cook, Hilary Coon, Daniel H. Geschwind, Michael Gill, Hakon Hakonarson, Joachim Hallmayer, Aarno Palotie, Susan Santangelo, James S. Sutcliffe, Dan E. Arking, Bernie Devlin, Mark J. Daly

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Background: Over the past decade genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been applied to aid in the understanding of the biology of traits. The success of this approach is governed by the underlying effect sizes carried by the true risk variants and the corresponding statistical power to observe such effects given the study design and sample size under investigation. Previous ASD GWAS have identified genome-wide significant (GWS) risk loci; however, these studies were of only of low statistical power to identify GWS loci at the lower effect sizes (odds ratio (OR) <1.15). Methods: We conducted a large-scale coordinated international collaboration to combine independent genotyping data to improve the statistical power and aid in robust discovery of GWS loci. This study uses genome-wide genotyping data from a discovery sample (7387 ASD cases and 8567 controls) followed by meta-analysis of summary statistics from two replication sets (7783 ASD cases and 11359 controls; and 1369 ASD cases and 137308 controls). Results: We observe a GWS locus at 10q24.32 that overlaps several genes including PITX3, which encodes a transcription factor identified as playing a role in neuronal differentiation and CUEDC2 previously reported to be associated with social skills in an independent population cohort. We also observe overlap with regions previously implicated in schizophrenia which was further supported by a strong genetic correlation between these disorders (Rg = 0.23; P = 9 × 10^-6). We further combined these Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) ASD GWAS data with the recent PGC schizophrenia GWAS to identify additional regions which may be important in a common neurodevelopmental phenotype and identified 12 novel GWS loci. These include loci previously implicated in ASD such as FOXP1 at 3p13, ATP2B2 at 3p25.3, and a 'neurodevelopmental hub' on chromosome 8p11.23. Conclusions: This study is an important step in the ongoing endeavour to identify the loci which underpin the common variant signal in ASD. In addition to novel GWS loci, we have identified a significant genetic correlation with schizophrenia and association of ASD with several neurodevelopmental-related genes such as EXT1, ASTN2, MACROD2, and HDAC4.

Original language	English
Article number	21
Journal	Molecular Autism
Volume	8
Number of pages	17
ISSN	2040-2392
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2017

Keywords

Autism spectrum disorder
Gene-set analysis
Genetic correlation
Genome-wide association study
Heritability
Meta-analysis
Neurodevelopment
Schizophrenia

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Anney, R. J. L., Ripke, S., Anttila, V., Grove, J., Holmans, P., Huang, H., Klei, L., Lee, P. H., Medland, S. E., Neale, B., Robinson, E., Weiss, L. A., Zwaigenbaum, L., Yu, T. W., Wittemeyer, K., Willsey, A. J., Wijsman, E. M., Werge, T., Wassink, T. H., ... Daly, M. J. (2017). Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia. Molecular Autism, 8, [21]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

Anney, RJL, Ripke, S, Anttila, V, Grove, J, Holmans, P, Huang, H, Klei, L, Lee, PH, Medland, SE, Neale, B, Robinson, E, Weiss, LA, Zwaigenbaum, L, Yu, TW, Wittemeyer, K, Willsey, AJ, Wijsman, EM, Werge, T, Wassink, TH, Waltes, R, Walsh, CA, Wallace, S, Vorstman, JAS, Vieland, VJ, Vicente, AM, Vanengeland, H, Tsang, K, Thompson, AP, Szatmari, P, Svantesson, O, Steinberg, S, Stefansson, K, Stefansson, H, State, MW, Soorya, L, Silagadze, T, Scherer, SW, Schellenberg, GD, Sandin, S, Sanders, SJ, Saemundsen, E, Rouleau, GA, Rogé, B, Roeder, K, Roberts, W, Reichert, J, Reichenberg, A, Rehnström, K, Regan, R, Poustka, F, Poultney, CS, Piven, J, Pinto, D, Pericak-Vance, MA, Pejovic-Milovancevic, M, Pedersen, MG, Pedersen, CB, Paterson, AD, Parr, JR, Pagnamenta, AT, Oliveira, G, Nurnberger, JI, Nordentoft, M, Murtha, MT, Mouga, S, Mortensen, PB, Mors, O, Morrow, EM, Moreno-De-Luca, D, Monaco, AP, Minshew, N, Merikangas, A, McMahon, WM, McGrew, SG, Mattheisen, M, Martsenkovsky, I, Martin, DM, Mane, SM, Magnusson, P, Magalhaes, T, Maestrini, E, Lowe, JK, Lord, C, Levitt, P, Martin, CL, Ledbetter, DH, Leboyer, M, Lecouteur, AS, Ladd-Acosta, C, Kolevzon, A, Klauck, SM, Jacob, S, Iliadou, B, Hultman, CM, Hougaard, DM, Hertz-Picciotto, I, Hendren, R, Hansen, CS, Haines, JL, Guter, SJ, Grice, DE, Green, JM, Green, A, Goldberg, AP, Gillberg, C, Gilbert, J, Gallagher, L, Freitag, CM, Fombonne, E, Folstein, SE, Fernandez, B, Fallin, MD, Ercan-Sencicek, AG, Ennis, S, Duque, F, Duketis, E, Delorme, R, Derubeis, S, Dejonge, MV, Dawson, G, Cuccaro, ML, Correia, CT, Conroy, J, Conceição, IC, Chiocchetti, AG, Celestino-Soper, PBS, Casey, J, Cantor, RM, Café, C, Bybjerg-Grauholm, J, Brennan, S, Bourgeron, T, Bolton, PF, Bölte, S, Bolshakova, N, Betancur, C, Bernier, R, Beaudet, AL, Battaglia, A, Bal, VH, Baird, G, Bailey, AJ, Bækvad-Hansen, M, Bader, JS, Bacchelli, E, Anagnostou, E, Amaral, D, Almeida, J, Børglum, AD, Buxbaum, JD, Chakravarti, A, Cook, EH, Coon, H, Geschwind, DH, Gill, M, Hakonarson, H, Hallmayer, J, Palotie, A, Santangelo, S, Sutcliffe, JS, Arking, DE, Devlin, B & Daly, MJ 2017, 'Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia', Molecular Autism, vol. 8, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

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AU - Anney, Richard J.L.

AU - Ripke, Stephan

AU - Anttila, Verneri

AU - Grove, Jakob

AU - Holmans, Peter

AU - Huang, Hailiang

AU - Klei, Lambertus

AU - Lee, Phil H.

AU - Medland, Sarah E.

AU - Neale, Benjamin

AU - Robinson, Elise

AU - Weiss, Lauren A.

AU - Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie

AU - Yu, Timothy W.

AU - Wittemeyer, Kerstin

AU - Willsey, A. Jeremy

AU - Wijsman, Ellen M.

AU - Werge, Thomas

AU - Wassink, Thomas H.

AU - Waltes, Regina

AU - Walsh, Christopher A.

AU - Wallace, Simon

AU - Vorstman, Jacob A.S.

AU - Vieland, Veronica J.

AU - Vicente, Astrid M.

AU - Vanengeland, Herman

AU - Tsang, Kathryn

AU - Thompson, Ann P.

AU - Szatmari, Peter

AU - Svantesson, Oscar

AU - Steinberg, Stacy

AU - Stefansson, Kari

AU - Stefansson, Hreinn

AU - State, Matthew W.

AU - Soorya, Latha

AU - Silagadze, Teimuraz

AU - Scherer, Stephen W.

AU - Schellenberg, Gerard D.

AU - Sandin, Sven

AU - Sanders, Stephan J.

AU - Saemundsen, Evald

AU - Rouleau, Guy A.

AU - Rogé, Bernadette

AU - Roeder, Kathryn

AU - Roberts, Wendy

AU - Reichert, Jennifer

AU - Reichenberg, Abraham

AU - Rehnström, Karola

AU - Regan, Regina

AU - Poustka, Fritz

AU - Poultney, Christopher S.

AU - Piven, Joseph

AU - Pinto, Dalila

AU - Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.

AU - Pejovic-Milovancevic, Milica

AU - Pedersen, Marianne Giørtz

AU - Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker

AU - Paterson, Andrew D.

AU - Parr, Jeremy R.

AU - Pagnamenta, Alistair T.

AU - Oliveira, Guiomar

AU - Nurnberger, John I.

AU - Nordentoft, Merete

AU - Murtha, Michael T.

AU - Mouga, Susana

AU - Mortensen, Preben Bo

AU - Mors, Ole

AU - Morrow, Eric M.

AU - Moreno-De-Luca, Daniel

AU - Monaco, Anthony P.

AU - Minshew, Nancy

AU - Merikangas, Alison

AU - McMahon, William M.

AU - McGrew, Susan G.

AU - Mattheisen, Manuel

AU - Martsenkovsky, Igor

AU - Martin, Donna M.

AU - Mane, Shrikant M.

AU - Magnusson, Pall

AU - Magalhaes, Tiago

AU - Maestrini, Elena

AU - Lowe, Jennifer K.

AU - Lord, Catherine

AU - Levitt, Pat

AU - Martin, Christa Lese

AU - Ledbetter, David H.

AU - Leboyer, Marion

AU - Lecouteur, Ann S.

AU - Ladd-Acosta, Christine

AU - Kolevzon, Alexander

AU - Klauck, Sabine M.

AU - Jacob, Suma

AU - Iliadou, Bozenna

AU - Hultman, Christina M.

AU - Hougaard, David M.

AU - Hertz-Picciotto, Irva

AU - Hendren, Robert

AU - Hansen, Christine Søholm

AU - Haines, Jonathan L.

AU - Guter, Stephen J.

AU - Grice, Dorothy E.

AU - Green, Jonathan M.

AU - Green, Andrew

AU - Goldberg, Arthur P.

AU - Gillberg, Christopher

AU - Gilbert, John

AU - Gallagher, Louise

AU - Freitag, Christine M.

AU - Fombonne, Eric

AU - Folstein, Susan E.

AU - Fernandez, Bridget

AU - Fallin, M. Daniele

AU - Ercan-Sencicek, A. Gulhan

AU - Ennis, Sean

AU - Duque, Frederico

AU - Duketis, Eftichia

AU - Delorme, Richard

AU - Derubeis, Silvia

AU - Dejonge, Maretha V.

AU - Dawson, Geraldine

AU - Cuccaro, Michael L.

AU - Correia, Catarina T.

AU - Conroy, Judith

AU - Conceição, Ines C.

AU - Chiocchetti, Andreas G.

AU - Celestino-Soper, Patrícia B.S.

AU - Casey, Jillian

AU - Cantor, Rita M.

AU - Café, Cátia

AU - Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas

AU - Brennan, Sean

AU - Bourgeron, Thomas

AU - Bolton, Patrick F.

AU - Bölte, Sven

AU - Bolshakova, Nadia

AU - Betancur, Catalina

AU - Bernier, Raphael

AU - Beaudet, Arthur L.

AU - Battaglia, Agatino

AU - Bal, Vanessa H.

AU - Baird, Gillian

AU - Bailey, Anthony J.

AU - Bækvad-Hansen, Marie

AU - Bader, Joel S.

AU - Bacchelli, Elena

AU - Anagnostou, Evdokia

AU - Amaral, David

AU - Almeida, Joana

AU - Børglum, Anders D.

AU - Buxbaum, Joseph D.

AU - Chakravarti, Aravinda

AU - Cook, Edwin H.

AU - Coon, Hilary

AU - Geschwind, Daniel H.

AU - Gill, Michael

AU - Hakonarson, Hakon

AU - Hallmayer, Joachim

AU - Palotie, Aarno

AU - Santangelo, Susan

AU - Sutcliffe, James S.

AU - Arking, Dan E.

AU - Devlin, Bernie

AU - Daly, Mark J.

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Y1 - 2017/5/22

N2 - Background: Over the past decade genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been applied to aid in the understanding of the biology of traits. The success of this approach is governed by the underlying effect sizes carried by the true risk variants and the corresponding statistical power to observe such effects given the study design and sample size under investigation. Previous ASD GWAS have identified genome-wide significant (GWS) risk loci; however, these studies were of only of low statistical power to identify GWS loci at the lower effect sizes (odds ratio (OR) <1.15). Methods: We conducted a large-scale coordinated international collaboration to combine independent genotyping data to improve the statistical power and aid in robust discovery of GWS loci. This study uses genome-wide genotyping data from a discovery sample (7387 ASD cases and 8567 controls) followed by meta-analysis of summary statistics from two replication sets (7783 ASD cases and 11359 controls; and 1369 ASD cases and 137308 controls). Results: We observe a GWS locus at 10q24.32 that overlaps several genes including PITX3, which encodes a transcription factor identified as playing a role in neuronal differentiation and CUEDC2 previously reported to be associated with social skills in an independent population cohort. We also observe overlap with regions previously implicated in schizophrenia which was further supported by a strong genetic correlation between these disorders (Rg = 0.23; P = 9 × 10-6). We further combined these Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) ASD GWAS data with the recent PGC schizophrenia GWAS to identify additional regions which may be important in a common neurodevelopmental phenotype and identified 12 novel GWS loci. These include loci previously implicated in ASD such as FOXP1 at 3p13, ATP2B2 at 3p25.3, and a 'neurodevelopmental hub' on chromosome 8p11.23. Conclusions: This study is an important step in the ongoing endeavour to identify the loci which underpin the common variant signal in ASD. In addition to novel GWS loci, we have identified a significant genetic correlation with schizophrenia and association of ASD with several neurodevelopmental-related genes such as EXT1, ASTN2, MACROD2, and HDAC4.

AB - Background: Over the past decade genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been applied to aid in the understanding of the biology of traits. The success of this approach is governed by the underlying effect sizes carried by the true risk variants and the corresponding statistical power to observe such effects given the study design and sample size under investigation. Previous ASD GWAS have identified genome-wide significant (GWS) risk loci; however, these studies were of only of low statistical power to identify GWS loci at the lower effect sizes (odds ratio (OR) <1.15). Methods: We conducted a large-scale coordinated international collaboration to combine independent genotyping data to improve the statistical power and aid in robust discovery of GWS loci. This study uses genome-wide genotyping data from a discovery sample (7387 ASD cases and 8567 controls) followed by meta-analysis of summary statistics from two replication sets (7783 ASD cases and 11359 controls; and 1369 ASD cases and 137308 controls). Results: We observe a GWS locus at 10q24.32 that overlaps several genes including PITX3, which encodes a transcription factor identified as playing a role in neuronal differentiation and CUEDC2 previously reported to be associated with social skills in an independent population cohort. We also observe overlap with regions previously implicated in schizophrenia which was further supported by a strong genetic correlation between these disorders (Rg = 0.23; P = 9 × 10-6). We further combined these Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) ASD GWAS data with the recent PGC schizophrenia GWAS to identify additional regions which may be important in a common neurodevelopmental phenotype and identified 12 novel GWS loci. These include loci previously implicated in ASD such as FOXP1 at 3p13, ATP2B2 at 3p25.3, and a 'neurodevelopmental hub' on chromosome 8p11.23. Conclusions: This study is an important step in the ongoing endeavour to identify the loci which underpin the common variant signal in ASD. In addition to novel GWS loci, we have identified a significant genetic correlation with schizophrenia and association of ASD with several neurodevelopmental-related genes such as EXT1, ASTN2, MACROD2, and HDAC4.

KW - Autism spectrum disorder

KW - Gene-set analysis

KW - Genetic correlation

KW - Genome-wide association study

KW - Heritability

KW - Meta-analysis

KW - Neurodevelopment

KW - Schizophrenia

U2 - 10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

DO - 10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 28540026

AN - SCOPUS:85019753129

SN - 2040-2392

VL - 8

JO - Molecular Autism

JF - Molecular Autism

M1 - 21

ER -

Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

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