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Dissecting mechanisms of hyperarousal in autism and related disorders using the Simons Sleep Project

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Gravity Follows Newton’s and Einstein’s Rules, Even at Cosmic Scales

April 15, 2026

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  1. Effects of parental age and polymer composition on short tandem repeat de novo mutation rates.

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  2. Genetic ablation of GIGYF1, associated with autism, causes behavioral and neurodevelopmental defects in zebrafish and mice.

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  3. A predictive ensemble classifier for the gene expression diagnosis of ASD at ages 1 to 4 years.

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  4. Integrated gene analyses of de novo variants from 46,612 trios with autism and developmental disorders.

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  5. GIGYF1 disruption associates with autism and impaired IGF-1R signaling.

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  6. Rare variants and the oligogenic architecture of autism.

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  7. Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes.

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  8. Delineation of a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with PAX5 haploinsufficiency.

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  9. De novo variants in the PSMC3 proteasome AAA-ATPase subunit gene cause neurodevelopmental disorders associated with type I interferonopathies.

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  10. Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development.

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  11. Differences in the number of de novo mutations between individuals are due to small family-specific effects and stochasticity.

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  12. Sleep problems in children with ASD and gene disrupting mutations.

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  13. Targeted long-read sequencing identifies missing disease-causing variation.

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  14. Recent ultra-rare inherited variants implicate new autism candidate risk genes.

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  15. Reflections on the genetics-first approach to advancements in molecular genetic and neurobiological research on neurodevelopmental disorders.

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  16. The CHD8 CHD7/Kismet family links blood-brain barrier glia and serotonin to ASD-associated sleep defects

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  17. Rare deleterious mutations of HNRNP genes result in shared neurodevelopmental disorders.

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  18. Large-scale targeted sequencing identifies risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders.

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  19. Evaluating heterogeneity in ASD symptomatology, cognitive ability, and adaptive functioning among 16p11.2 CNV carriers.

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  20. Insufficient evidence for “autism-specific” genes.

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  21. The human-specific BOLA2 duplication modifies iron homeostasis and anemia predisposition in chromosome 16p11.2 autism individuals.

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  22. Disruptive mutations in TANC2 define a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with psychiatric disorders

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  23. Disruptive variants of CSDE1 associate with autism and interfere with neuronal development and synaptic transmission.

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  24. Exome sequencing of 457 autism families recruited online provides evidence for novel ASD genes.

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  25. Habituation learning is a widely affected mechanism in Drosophila models of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

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  26. Genome sequencing identifies multiple deleterious variants in autism patients with more severe phenotypes.

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  27. Clinical presentation of a complex neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in ADNP.

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  28. Establishing cerebral organoids as models of human-specific brain evolution.

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  29. Neurodevelopmental disease genes implicated by de novo mutation and copy number variation morbidity.

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  30. Inherited and multiple de novo mutations in autism/developmental delay risk genes suggest a multifactorial model.

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  31. Human-specific NOTCH2NL genes affect notch signaling and cortical neurogenesis.

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  32. A genotype-first approach identifies an intellectual disability-overweight syndrome caused by PHIP haploinsufficiency.

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  33. Longitudinal report of child with de novo 16p11.2 triplication.

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  34. Recurrent de novo mutations in neurodevelopmental disorders: Properties and clinical implications.

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  35. Associations between familial rates of psychiatric disorders and de novo genetic mutations in autism.

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  36. Genomic patterns of de novo mutation in simplex autism.

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  37. Clinical phenotype of ASD-associated DYRK1A haploinsufficiency.

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  38. Hotspots of missense mutation identify neurodevelopmental disorder genes and functional domains.

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  39. Exploring the heterogeneity of neural social indices for genetically distinct etiologies of autism.

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  40. Targeted sequencing identifies 91 neurodevelopmental-disorder risk genes with autism and developmental-disability biases.

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  41. Denovo-db: A compendium of human de novo variants.

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  42. De novo genic mutations among a Chinese autism spectrum disorder cohort.

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  43. Emergence of a Homo sapiens-specific gene family and chromosome 16p11.2 CNV susceptibility.

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  44. Disruption of POGZ is associated with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

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  45. Molecular subtyping and improved treatment of neurodevelopmental disease.

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  46. Genome sequencing of autism-affected families reveals disruption of putative noncoding regulatory DNA.

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  47. Maternal modifiers and parent-of-origin bias of the autism-associated 16p11.2 CNV.

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  48. Disruptive de novo mutations of DYRK1A lead to a syndromic form of autism and ID.

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