A rare autism-associated MINT2/APBA2 mutation disrupts neurexin trafficking and synaptic function

Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

Nature · 2014 · 2.9K citations · Full text

Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Chromatin, Synaptic Plasticity +8

The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Spectrum Disorder, Syndromic Autism +8

Transcriptomic analysis of autistic brain reveals convergent molecular pathology

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Molecular Neuroscience, Syndromic Autism, Autism +4

Neuroligin Expressed in Nonneuronal Cells Triggers Presynaptic Development in Contacting Axons

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Neuroligin 1: A splice site-specific ligand for β-neurexins

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Molecular Neuroscience, Splice Site-specific Ligand, Molecular Biology +2