The Contribution of Mosaic Variants to Autism Spectrum Disorder.

De novo mutation is highly implicated in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the contribution of post-zygotic mutation to ASD is poorly characterized. We performed both exome sequencing of paired samples and analysis of de novo variants from whole-exome sequencing of 2,388 families. While we fi...

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Main Authors: Donald Freed, Jonathan Pevsner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5024993?pdf=render