2012
De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism
Sanders SJ, Murtha MT, Gupta AR, Murdoch JD, Raubeson MJ, Willsey AJ, Ercan-Sencicek AG, DiLullo NM, Parikshak NN, Stein JL, Walker MF, Ober GT, Teran NA, Song Y, El-Fishawy P, Murtha RC, Choi M, Overton JD, Bjornson RD, Carriero NJ, Meyer KA, Bilguvar K, Mane SM, Šestan N, Lifton RP, Günel M, Roeder K, Geschwind DH, Devlin B, State MW. De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism. Nature 2012, 485: 237-241. PMID: 22495306, PMCID: PMC3667984, DOI: 10.1038/nature10945.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
Use of array CGH to detect exonic copy number variants throughout the genome in autism families detects a novel deletion in TMLHE
Celestino-Soper PB, Shaw CA, Sanders SJ, Li J, Murtha MT, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Davis L, Thomson S, Gambin T, Chinault AC, Ou Z, German JR, Milosavljevic A, Sutcliffe JS, Cook EH, Stankiewicz P, State MW, Beaudet AL. Use of array CGH to detect exonic copy number variants throughout the genome in autism families detects a novel deletion in TMLHE. Human Molecular Genetics 2011, 20: 4360-4370. PMID: 21865298, PMCID: PMC3196886, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr363.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCopy number variantsSingle protein-coding geneProtein-coding genesNumber variantsSingle nucleotide polymorphism arrayArray comparative genomic hybridizationExonic copy number variantsSmall copy number variantsComparative genomic hybridizationFirst enzymeUnique exonsX chromosomeRefSeq genesGenomic variantsHeterogeneous genetic etiologyOligonucleotide arraysPolymorphism arrayIndividual B cellsClonal outgrowthAutism familiesExonic deletionsGenomic hybridizationSimons Simplex CollectionHemizygous deletionSomatic mutations