Project description:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an innate neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in social communication/interaction, repetitive and restrictive behavior. Copy number variation (CNV) is a one of the structural variation of the genomic sequence, including large multiplications and deletions ranging from kb to Mb of DNA. These multiplication-deletion provide genomic diversity, while CNV affects the amount of gene products or transcriptional regulation, and result in strong association with biological process, metabolism and disease. In facts, many studies reported that the mapping of CNVs which strongly associated with ASD. The subjects of this study were the community-based 5 years old children because they might be able to except acquired effects after birth as much as possible and focus on the genetic background, and there are possibilities that the results will be specific to the Japanese patients with ASD.
Project description:Individualized outcome prediction classifiers were successfully constructed through expression profiling of 91 up-regulated and 67 down-regulated miRNAs in 5 autism spectrum disorder (ASD) cases and 5 controls. In the study presented here, a well-defined cohort of 5 autism spectrum disorder cases and 5 controls was used to acquire expression profiles of 91 up-regulated and 67 down-regulated miRNAs, leading to the first global miRNA expression profile of ASD in China.
