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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by high heritability. Recently, autism, the most profound form of ASD, has been increasingly attributed to synaptic abnormalities. Postsynaptic density 95 (PSD95), encoding PSD protein-95, was found essential for synaptic formation, maturation and plasticity at a PSD of excitatory synapse. It is possibly a crucial candidate gene for the pathogenesis of ASD. To identify the relationship between the rs13331 of PSD95 gene and ASD, we performed a case-control study in 212 patients and 636 controls in a Chinese population by using a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymerase (PCR-RFLP) assay. The results showed that in genetic analysis of the heterozygous model, an association between the T allele of the rs13331 and ASD was found in the dominant model (OR=1.709, 95% CI 1.227–2.382, P=0.002) and the additive model (OR=1.409, 95% CI=1.104–1.800, P=0.006). Our data indicate that the genetic mutation C>T at the rs13331 in the PSD95 gene is strikingly associated with an increased risk of ASD.
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This work was supported by grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HUST No. 2015TS096), Hubei Province Health and Family Planning Scientific Research Project (No. WJ2015MB019), and a funding program of Science and Technology Projects of Shenzhen (No. JCYJ20150403142731429).
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Wang, J., Li, L., Shao, Ss. et al. Association analysis of genetic variant of rs13331 in PSD95 gene with autism spectrum disorders: A case-control study in a Chinese population. J. Huazhong Univ. Sci. Technol. [Med. Sci.] 36, 285–288 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11596-016-1581-z
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