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Description: The autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of conditions characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction and communication, and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviours. Individuals with an ASD vary greatly in cognitive development, which can range from above average to intellectual disability. Although ASDs are known to be highly heritable ( approximately 90%), the underlying genetic determinants are still largely unknown. Here we analysed the genome-wide characteristics of rare (〈1% frequency) copy number variation in ASD using dense genotyping arrays. When comparing 996 ASD individuals of European ancestry to 1,287 matched controls, cases were found to carry a higher global burden of rare, genic copy number variants (CNVs) (1.19 fold, P = 0.012), especially so for loci previously implicated in either ASD and/or intellectual disability (1.69 fold, P = 3.4 x 10(-4)). Among the CNVs there were numerous de novo and inherited events, sometimes in combination in a given family, implicating many novel ASD genes such as SHANK2, SYNGAP1, DLGAP2 and the X-linked DDX53-PTCHD1 locus. We also discovered an enrichment of CNVs disrupting functional gene sets involved in cellular proliferation, projection and motility, and GTPase/Ras signalling. Our results reveal many new genetic and functional targets in ASD that may lead to final connected pathways.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021798/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021798/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pinto, Dalila -- Pagnamenta, Alistair T -- Klei, Lambertus -- Anney, Richard -- Merico, Daniele -- Regan, Regina -- Conroy, Judith -- Magalhaes, Tiago R -- Correia, Catarina -- Abrahams, Brett S -- Almeida, Joana -- Bacchelli, Elena -- Bader, Gary D -- Bailey, Anthony J -- Baird, Gillian -- Battaglia, Agatino -- Berney, Tom -- Bolshakova, Nadia -- Bolte, Sven -- Bolton, Patrick F -- Bourgeron, Thomas -- Brennan, Sean -- Brian, Jessica -- Bryson, Susan E -- Carson, Andrew R -- Casallo, Guillermo -- Casey, Jillian -- Chung, Brian H Y -- Cochrane, Lynne -- Corsello, Christina -- Crawford, Emily L -- Crossett, Andrew -- Cytrynbaum, Cheryl -- Dawson, Geraldine -- de Jonge, Maretha -- Delorme, Richard -- Drmic, Irene -- Duketis, Eftichia -- Duque, Frederico -- Estes, Annette -- Farrar, Penny -- Fernandez, Bridget A -- Folstein, Susan E -- Fombonne, Eric -- Freitag, Christine M -- Gilbert, John -- Gillberg, Christopher -- Glessner, Joseph T -- Goldberg, Jeremy -- Green, Andrew -- Green, Jonathan -- Guter, Stephen J -- Hakonarson, Hakon -- Heron, Elizabeth A -- Hill, Matthew -- Holt, Richard -- Howe, Jennifer L -- Hughes, Gillian -- Hus, Vanessa -- Igliozzi, Roberta -- Kim, Cecilia -- Klauck, Sabine M -- Kolevzon, Alexander -- Korvatska, Olena -- Kustanovich, Vlad -- Lajonchere, Clara M -- Lamb, Janine A -- Laskawiec, Magdalena -- Leboyer, Marion -- Le Couteur, Ann -- Leventhal, Bennett L -- Lionel, Anath C -- Liu, Xiao-Qing -- Lord, Catherine -- Lotspeich, Linda -- Lund, Sabata C -- Maestrini, Elena -- Mahoney, William -- Mantoulan, Carine -- Marshall, Christian R -- McConachie, Helen -- McDougle, Christopher J -- McGrath, Jane -- McMahon, William M -- Merikangas, Alison -- Migita, Ohsuke -- Minshew, Nancy J -- Mirza, Ghazala K -- Munson, Jeff -- Nelson, Stanley F -- Noakes, Carolyn -- Noor, Abdul -- Nygren, Gudrun -- Oliveira, Guiomar -- Papanikolaou, Katerina -- Parr, Jeremy R -- Parrini, Barbara -- Paton, Tara -- Pickles, Andrew -- Pilorge, Marion -- Piven, Joseph -- Ponting, Chris P -- Posey, David J -- Poustka, Annemarie -- Poustka, Fritz -- Prasad, Aparna -- Ragoussis, Jiannis -- Renshaw, Katy -- Rickaby, Jessica -- Roberts, Wendy -- Roeder, Kathryn -- Roge, Bernadette -- Rutter, Michael L -- Bierut, Laura J -- Rice, John P -- Salt, Jeff -- Sansom, Katherine -- Sato, Daisuke -- Segurado, Ricardo -- Sequeira, Ana F -- Senman, Lili -- Shah, Naisha -- Sheffield, Val C -- Soorya, Latha -- Sousa, Ines -- Stein, Olaf -- Sykes, Nuala -- Stoppioni, Vera -- Strawbridge, Christina -- Tancredi, Raffaella -- Tansey, Katherine -- Thiruvahindrapduram, Bhooma -- Thompson, Ann P -- Thomson, Susanne -- Tryfon, Ana -- Tsiantis, John -- Van Engeland, Herman -- Vincent, John B -- Volkmar, Fred -- Wallace, Simon -- Wang, Kai -- Wang, Zhouzhi -- Wassink, Thomas H -- Webber, Caleb -- Weksberg, Rosanna -- Wing, Kirsty -- Wittemeyer, Kerstin -- Wood, Shawn -- Wu, Jing -- Yaspan, Brian L -- Zurawiecki, Danielle -- Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie -- Buxbaum, Joseph D -- Cantor, Rita M -- Cook, Edwin H -- Coon, Hilary -- Cuccaro, Michael L -- Devlin, Bernie -- Ennis, Sean -- Gallagher, Louise -- Geschwind, Daniel H -- Gill, Michael -- Haines, Jonathan L -- Hallmayer, Joachim -- Miller, Judith -- Monaco, Anthony P -- Nurnberger, John I Jr -- Paterson, Andrew D -- Pericak-Vance, Margaret A -- Schellenberg, Gerard D -- Szatmari, Peter -- Vicente, Astrid M -- Vieland, Veronica J -- Wijsman, Ellen M -- Scherer, Stephen W -- Sutcliffe, James S -- Betancur, 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Epub 2010 Jun 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20531469" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Diabetic complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy, and renal and cardiovascular disease continue to pose major health risks for diabetic patients. Consequently, much effort has focused on approaches that could replace conventional insulin therapy and provide more precise regulation of blood glucose levels. The biohybrid perfused artificial pancreas was designed to incorporate islet tissue and a selectively permeable membrane that isolates this tissue from the immune system of the recipient. Biohybrid pancreas devices containing canine islet allografts were implanted in ten pancreatectomized dogs requiring 18 to 32 units of injected insulin daily. These implants resulted in good control of fasting glucose levels in six of these animals without further exogenous insulin for periods of up to 5 months.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sullivan, S J -- Maki, T -- Borland, K M -- Mahoney, M D -- Solomon, B A -- Muller, T E -- Monaco, A P -- Chick, W L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 May 3;252(5006):718-21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉BioHybrid Technologies, Inc., Shrewsbury, MA 01545.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2024124" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: A unified genetic, physical, and functional map of the human X chromosome is being built through a concerted, international effort. About 40 percent of the 160 million base pairs of the X chromosome DNA have been cloned in overlapping, ordered contigs derived from yeast artificial chromosomes. This rapid progress toward a physical map is accelerating the identification of inherited disease genes, 26 of which are already cloned and more than 50 others regionally localized by linkage analysis. This article summarizes the mapping strategies now used and the impact of genome research on the understanding of X chromosome inactivation and X-linked diseases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mandel, J L -- Monaco, A P -- Nelson, D L -- Schlessinger, D -- Willard, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Oct 2;258(5079):103-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire de Genetique Moleculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, INSERM, Strasbourg, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1439756" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mandel, J L -- Monaco, A P -- Nelson, D L -- Schlessinger, D -- Willard, H F -- Chipperfield, M -- Pearson, P -- Gilna, P -- Cinkosky, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Oct 2;258(5079):87-102.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉INSERM, Strasbourg, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1439771" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Deafness with fixation of the stapes (DFN3) is the most frequent X-linked form of hearing impairment. The underlying gene has been localized to a 500-kilobase segment of the Xq21 band. Here, it is reported that a candidate gene for this disorder, Brain 4 (POU3F4), which encodes a transcription factor with a POU domain, maps to the same interval. In five unrelated patients with DFN3 but not in 50 normal controls, small mutations were found that result in truncation of the predicted protein or in nonconservative amino acid substitutions. These findings indicate that POU3F4 mutations are a molecular cause of DFN3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉de Kok, Y J -- van der Maarel, S M -- Bitner-Glindzicz, M -- Huber, I -- Monaco, A P -- Malcolm, S -- Pembrey, M E -- Ropers, H H -- Cremers, F P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Feb 3;267(5198):685-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Nijmegen, Netherlands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7839145" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: A portion of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene transcript from human fetal skeletal muscle and mouse adult heart was sequenced, representing approximately 25 percent of the total, 14-kb DMD transcript. The nucleic acid and predicted amino acid sequences from the two species are nearly 90 percent homologous. The amino acid sequence that is predicted from this portion of the DMD gene indicates that the protein product might serve a structural role in muscle, but the abundance and tissue distribution of the messenger RNA suggests that the DMD protein is not nebulin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoffman, E P -- Monaco, A P -- Feener, C C -- Kunkel, L M -- 2T 32 GM07753-07/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HD18658/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS23740/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007753/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Oct 16;238(4825):347-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3659917" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉