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Linking rare variants to cell-type function in profound autism with brain transcriptomics and foundation models.

Alma Dubuc¹, Thomas Renne², Guillaume Huguet³

¹Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France; Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Identifying genes linked to autism is hard. This study uses brain data and AI to find how genetic changes affect specific brain cells, creating a new framework for understanding autism risk.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Genetics
Computational Biology

Background:

Genetic association studies reveal many autism-associated genes, but pinpointing shared vulnerabilities is difficult.
Interpreting gene functions often uses gene ontologies and protein networks, but single-cell expression data offers new insights.
Broad gene expression patterns in autism complicate cell-type-specific analyses.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a framework for analyzing cell-type specificity and sensitivity of autism-associated genes.
To investigate the use of foundation models for linking genetic variation to cell-type transcriptomes.
To propose a unifying mechanistic framework for rare-variant liability in autism.

Main Methods:

Quantifying the trade-off between gene cell-type specificity and sensitivity.
Leveraging brain transcriptomic resources and single-cell expression data.
Employing foundation models for AI-driven inference and postmortem validation.

Main Results:

A novel framework was proposed to assess gene cell-type specificity and sensitivity in autism.
Foundation models show potential in clarifying cellular functions affected by autism variants.
Limited overlap between genetic associations and transcriptomic alterations highlights causality questions.

Conclusions:

A unifying mechanistic framework for rare-variant liability in autism is proposed.
Integrating experimental data, AI inference, and validation advances autism genetics research.
Understanding cell-type-specific effects is crucial for decoding autism's genetic architecture.