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Dynamic Clamp Methods to Investigate Impaired Neuronal Excitability Associated with Autism
Published on: October 17, 2025
Autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have a similar burden of rare
F Kyle Satterstrom1,2,3, Raymond K Walters4,5,6, Tarjinder Singh4,5,6
1Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. satterst@broadinstitute.org.
Abstract:
The exome sequences of approximately 8,000 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 5,000 controls were analyzed, finding that individuals with ASD and individuals with ADHD had a similar burden of rare protein-truncating variants in evolutionarily constrained genes, both significantly higher than controls. This motivated a combined analysis across ASD and ADHD, identifying microtubule-associated protein 1A (MAP1A) as a new exome-wide significant gene conferring risk for childhood psychiatric disorders.
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