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Nuala Sykes

Researcher at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Publications -  19
Citations -  5563

Nuala Sykes is an academic researcher from Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Copy-number variation. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 19 publications receiving 5273 citations. Previous affiliations of Nuala Sykes include Ohio State University & University of Oxford.

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

Dalila Pinto, +181 more
- 15 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: The genome-wide characteristics of rare (<1% frequency) copy number variation in ASD are analysed using dense genotyping arrays to reveal many new genetic and functional targets in ASD that may lead to final connected pathways.
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Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

Peter Szatmari, +139 more
- 01 Mar 2007 - 
TL;DR: Linkage and copy number variation analyses implicate chromosome 11p12–p13 and neurexins, respectively, among other candidate loci, highlighting glutamate-related genes as promising candidates for contributing to ASDs.
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A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

Richard Anney, +170 more
TL;DR: In one of four primary association analyses, the association signal for marker rs4141463, located within MACROD2, crossed the genome-wide association significance threshold of P < 5 × 10−8 and, consistent with the winner's curse, its effect size in the replication sample was much smaller.
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Identification of FOXP2 Truncation as a Novel Cause of Developmental Speech and Language Deficits

TL;DR: Investigation of the entire coding region of FOXP2, including alternatively spliced exons, in 49 probands affected with verbal dyspraxia and the discovery of the first nonsense mutation in FoxP2 opens the door for detailed investigations of neurodevelopment in people carrying different etiological variants of the gene.
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Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders.

Richard Anney, +148 more
TL;DR: Stage 2 of the Autism Genome Project genome-wide association study is reported, adding 1301 ASD families and bringing the total to 2705 families analysed, and it is reasonable to conclude that common variants affect the risk for ASD but their individual effects are modest.