A molecular genetic study of autism and related phenotypes in extended pedigrees
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Piven, Joseph, et al. A Molecular Genetic Study of Autism and Related Phenotypes In Extended Pedigrees. BioMed Central Ltd, 2013. https://doi.org/10.17615/zprh-z789APA
Piven, J., Vieland, V., Parlier, M., Thompson, A., O’conner, I., Woodbury Smith, M., Huang, Y., Walters, K., Fernandez, B., & Szatmari, P. (2013). A molecular genetic study of autism and related phenotypes in extended pedigrees. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.17615/zprh-z789Chicago
Piven, Joseph, Veronica J Vieland, Morgan Parlier, Ann Thompson, Irene O’conner, Mark Woodbury Smith, Yungui Huang et al. 2013. A Molecular Genetic Study of Autism and Related Phenotypes In Extended Pedigrees. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.17615/zprh-z789- Creator
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Piven, Joseph
- Affiliation: School of Medicine, Neurodevelopment Disorders Research Center, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
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Vieland, Veronica J.
- Other Affiliation: Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Parlier, Morgan
- Affiliation: School of Medicine, Neurodevelopment Disorders Research Center, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
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Thompson, Ann
- Other Affiliation: McMaster Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
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O’Conner, Irene
- Other Affiliation: McMaster Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
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Woodbury-Smith, Mark
- Other Affiliation: McMaster Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
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Huang, Yungui
- Other Affiliation: Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Walters, Kimberly A.
- Other Affiliation: Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Fernandez, Bridget
- Other Affiliation: Provincial Medical Genetics Program, Health Sciences Center
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Szatmari, Peter
- Other Affiliation: McMaster Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
- Abstract
- Background: Efforts to uncover the risk genotypes associated with the familial nature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have had limited success. The study of extended pedigrees, incorporating additional ASD-related phenotypes into linkage analysis, offers an alternative approach to the search for inherited ASD susceptibility variants that complements traditional methods used to study the genetics of ASD. Methods: We examined evidence for linkage in 19 extended pedigrees ascertained through ASD cases spread across at least two (and in most cases three) nuclear families. Both compound phenotypes (i.e., ASD and, in non-ASD individuals, the broad autism phenotype) and more narrowly defined components of these phenotypes, e.g., social and repetitive behavior, pragmatic language, and anxiety, were examined. The overarching goal was to maximize the aggregate information available on the maximum number of individuals and to disaggregate syndromic phenotypes in order to examine the genetic underpinnings of more narrowly defined aspects of ASD behavior. Results: Results reveal substantial between-family locus heterogeneity and support the importance of previously reported ASD loci in inherited, familial, forms of ASD. Additional loci, not seen in the ASD analyses, show evidence for linkage to the broad autism phenotype (BAP). BAP peaks are well supported by multiple subphenotypes (including anxiety, pragmatic language, and social behavior) showing linkage to regions overlapping with the compound BAP phenotype. Whereas ‘repetitive behavior’, showing the strongest evidence for linkage (Posterior Probability of Linkage = 62% at 6p25.2-24.3, and 69% at 19p13.3), appears to be linked to novel regions not detected with other compound or narrow phenotypes examined in this study. Conclusions: These results provide support for the presence of key features underlying the complexity of the genetic architecture of ASD: substantial between-family locus heterogeneity, that the BAP appears to correspond to sets of subclinical features segregating with ASD within pedigrees, and that different features of the ASD phenotype segregate independently of one another. These findings support the additional study of larger, even more individually informative pedigrees, together with measurement of multiple, behavioral- and biomarker-based phenotypes, in both affected and non-affected individuals, to elucidate the complex genetics of familial ASD.
- Date of publication
- October 5, 2013
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- In Copyright
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- Joseph Piven et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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- Journal title
- Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Journal volume
- 5
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 30
- Language
- English
- Is the article or chapter peer-reviewed?
- Yes
- ISSN
- 1866-1955
- Bibliographic citation
- Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2013 Oct 05;5(1):30
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- BioMed Central Ltd
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- Open Access
- Date uploaded
- October 10, 2013
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