Research by Topic: noncoding

De novo mutations in regulatory elements in neurodevelopmental disorders

Published June 26, 2019 in nature

We previously estimated that 42% of patients with severe developmental disorders carry pathogenic de novo mutations in coding sequences. The role of de novo mutations in regulatory elements affecting genes associated with developmental disorders, or other genes, has been essentially unexplored. We identified de novo mutations in three classes of putative regulatory elements in almost […]

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25983

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Paternally inherited cis-regulatory structural variants are associated with autism

Published June 26, 2019 in Science

The genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is known to consist of contributions from de novo mutations in variant-intolerant genes. We hypothesize that rare inherited structural variants in cis-regulatory elements (CRE-SVs) of these genes also contribute to ASD. We investigated this by assessing the evidence for natural selection and transmission distortion of CRE-SVs in […]

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/327.long

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