Not All Autism Genes Are Created Equal: A Response to Myers et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: joseph.buxbaum@mssm.edu.
² Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
³ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA 02142, USA; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
⁵ Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15313, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

Comment

Joseph D Buxbaum et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 5;107(5):1000-1003.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.09.013.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: joseph.buxbaum@mssm.edu.
² Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
³ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA 02142, USA; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
⁵ Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15313, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

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Comment in

Response to Buxbaum et al.
Myers SM, Challman TD, Martin CL, Ledbetter DH. Myers SM, et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Nov 5;107(5):1004. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.09.012. Am J Hum Genet. 2020. PMID: 33157005 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Insufficient Evidence for "Autism-Specific" Genes.
Myers SM, Challman TD, Bernier R, Bourgeron T, Chung WK, Constantino JN, Eichler EE, Jacquemont S, Miller DT, Mitchell KJ, Zoghbi HY, Martin CL, Ledbetter DH. Myers SM, et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 May 7;106(5):587-595. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.04.004. Epub 2020 Apr 30. Am J Hum Genet. 2020. PMID: 32359473 Free PMC article. Review.

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