First glimpses of the neurobiology of autism spectrum disorder.

Abstract:

:Rapid progress in identifying the genes underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has provided the substrate for a first wave of analyses into the underlying neurobiology. This review describes the consensus across these diverse analyses, highlighting two distinct sets of genes: 1) Genes that regulate chromatin and transcription, especially in cortical projection neurons and striatal medium spiny neurons during mid-fetal development; and 2) Genes involved in synapse development and function, especially during infancy and early childhood, and differentially expressed in the post mortem ASD brain. Both gene sets are also regulatory targets of the ASD genes CHD8 and FMRP. It remains to be seen whether these represent two independent paths to the ASD phenotype or two components of a common path.

journal_name

Curr Opin Genet Dev

authors

Sanders SJ

doi

10.1016/j.gde.2015.10.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-08-01 00:00:00

pages

80-92

eissn

0959-437X

issn

1879-0380

pii

S0959-437X(15)00101-X

journal_volume

33

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