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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2022

Rare CACNA1H and RELN variants interact through mTORC1 pathway in oligogenic autism spectrum disorder.

André Luíz Teles E Silva, Talita Glaser, Karina Griesi-Oliveira, Juliana Corrêa-Velloso, Jaqueline Yu Ting Wang, Gabriele da Silva Campos, Henning Ulrich, Andrea Balan, Mehdi Zarrei, Edward J Higginbotham and 3 more

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

André Luíz Teles E SilvaHospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
Talita GlaserInstituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Karina Griesi-OliveiraHospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juliana Corrêa-VellosoInstituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Jaqueline Yu Ting WangCentro de Estudos do Genoma Humano e Células Tronco, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Gabriele da Silva CamposCentro de Estudos do Genoma Humano e Células Tronco, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Henning UlrichInstituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Andrea BalanInstituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mehdi ZarreiThe Centre for Applied Genomics, Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Edward J HigginbothamThe Centre for Applied Genomics, Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Stephen W SchererThe Centre for Applied Genomics, Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8326-1999
Maria Rita Passos-BuenoCentro de Estudos do Genoma Humano e Células Tronco, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Andrea Laurato SertiéHospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil. andrea.sertie@einstein.br.ORCID 0000-0002-7453-0560
Instituto Biológico · BRUniversidade de São Paulo · BRHospital for Sick Children · CAHospital Israelita Albert Einstein · BRUniversity of Toronto · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oligogenic inheritance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been supported by several studies. However, little is known about how the risk variants interact and converge on causative neurobiological pathways. We identified in an ASD proband deleterious compound heterozygous missense variants in the Reelin (RELN) gene, and a de novo splicing variant in the Cav3.2 calcium channel (CACNA1H) gene. Here, by using iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and a heterologous expression system, we show that the variant in Cav3.2 leads to increased calcium influx into cells, which overactivates mTORC1 pathway and, consequently, further exacerbates the impairment of Reelin signaling. Also, we show that Cav3.2/mTORC1 overactivation induces proliferation of NPCs and that both mutant Cav3.2 and Reelin cause abnormal migration of these cells. Finally, analysis of the sequencing data from two ASD cohorts-a Brazilian cohort of 861 samples, 291 with ASD; the MSSNG cohort of 11,181 samples, 5,102 with ASD-revealed that the co-occurrence of risk variants in both alleles of Reelin pathway genes and in one allele of calcium channel genes confer significant liability for ASD. Our results support the notion that genes with co-occurring deleterious variants tend to have interconnected pathways underlying oligogenic forms of ASD.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderCalcium Channels, T-TypeCalcium ChannelsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1Multifactorial InheritanceCACNA1H protein, humanCalcium ChannelsCalcium Channels, T-TypeMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1

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