Loss of δ-catenin function in severe autism

2013 William Allan Award: My Multifactorial Journey1

(2014) Aravinda Chakravarti   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Palmitoylation of δ-catenin by DHHC5 mediates activity-induced synapse plasticity

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The role of de novo mutations in the genetics of autism spectrum disorders

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CYFIP1 Coordinates mRNA Translation and Cytoskeleton Remodeling to Ensure Proper Dendritic Spine Formation

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Sequencing Chromosomal Abnormalities Reveals Neurodevelopmental Loci that Confer Risk across Diagnostic Boundaries

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Expression of delta-catenin is associated with progression of human astrocytoma

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Rare structural variation of synapse and neurotransmission genes in autism

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Dendritic spine pathology in neuropsychiatric disorders

(2011) Peter Penzes et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Class 5 Transmembrane Semaphorins Control Selective Mammalian Retinal Lamination and Function

(2011) Ryota L. Matsuoka et al.   NEURON

Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

(2011) Stephan J. Sanders et al.   NEURON

Differential Contributions of Rare and Common, Coding and Noncoding Ret Mutations to Multifactorial Hirschsprung Disease Liability

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Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Isoform- and dose-sensitive feedback interactions between paired box 6 gene and δ-catenin in cell differentiation and death

(2010) Jiao Zhang et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2010) A. McKenna et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

(2010) Dalila Pinto et al.   NATURE

ANNOVAR: functional annotation of genetic variants from high-throughput sequencing data

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Evaluation of Pax6 Mutant Rat as a Model for Autism

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Phenomic determinants of genomic variation in autism spectrum disorders

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 -Catenin Regulates Spine and Synapse Morphogenesis and Function in Hippocampal Neurons during Development

(2009) J. Arikkath et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

(2009) Lauren A. Weiss et al.   NATURE

δ-Catenin Is Required for the Maintenance of Neural Structure and Function in Mature Cortex In Vivo

(2009) Cheryl Matter et al.   NEURON

Prevalence of Parent-Reported Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children in the US, 2007

(2009) M. D. Kogan et al.   PEDIATRICS

BFAST: An Alignment Tool for Large Scale Genome Resequencing

(2009) Nils Homer et al.   PLoS One

Structural Variation of Chromosomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder

(2008) Christian R. Marshall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Recurrent CNVs Disrupt Three Candidate Genes in Schizophrenia Patients

(2008) Terry Vrijenhoek et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Pax6 3′ deletion results in aniridia, autism and mental retardation

(2008) L. K. Davis et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

A δ-Catenin Signaling Pathway Leading to Dendritic Protrusions

(2008) Kawther Abu-Elneel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Advances in autism genetics: on the threshold of a new neurobiology

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