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Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Chief of Research and Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Professor, University of Toronto
Website
sickkids.ca/Research/AbouttheInstitute/Profiles/GGB/scherer-profile.html

Publications

Genetic variants in DDX53 contribute to autism spectrum disorder associated with the Xp22.11 locus.

Am. J. Hum. Genet., January 2, 2025

Scala M., Bradley C.A., Howe J.L., Trost B., Salazar N.B., Shum C., et al.

Chromosome X-wide common variant association study in autism spectrum disorder.

Am. J. Hum. Genet., January 2, 2025

Mendes M., Chen D.Z., Engchuan W., Leal T.P., Thiruvahindrapuram B., Trost B., et al.

Effects of gene dosage on cognitive ability: A function-based association study across brain and non-brain processes.

Cell Genom., December 11, 2024

Huguet G., Renne T., Poulain C., Dubuc A., Kumar K., Kazem S., Engchuan W., Shanta O., Douard E., Proulx C., Jean-Louis M., Saci Z., Mollon J., Schultz L.M., Knowles E.E.M., Cox S.R., Porteous D., Davies G., Redmond P., Harris S.E., Schumann G., Dumas G., Labbe A., Pausova Z., Paus T., S. Scherer, J. Sebat, and Almasy L., Glahn D.C., Jacquemont S.

Genetic variants in DDX53 contribute to autism spectrum disorder associated with the Xp22.11 locus

medRxiv, December 27, 2023

Scala M., Bradley C.A., Howe J.L., Trost B., Salazar N.B., Shum C., Reuter M.S., MacDonald J.R., Ko S.Y., Frankland P.W., Granger L., Anadiotis G., Pullano V., Brusco A., Keller R., Parisotto S., Pedro H.F., Lusk L., McDonnell P.P., Helbig I., Mullegama S.V., Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Douine E.D., Russell B.E., Nelson S.F., Zara F. and S. Scherer

Projects

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The role of the PTCHD1-antisense long noncoding RNA in autism

Awarded 2018

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