Autism Spectrum Disorder: modulation of genomic variant effects on brain structure and function

Vilela, Joana; Martiniano, Hugo; Marques, Ana Rita; Xavier Santos, João; Asif, Muhammad; Rasga, Célia; Oliveira, Guiomar; Vicente, Astrid M.

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The main objective of this work is to identify Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) that play a role in ASD etiology in neurotransmission and synaptic genes since there is strong genomic and functional evidence that these biological processes are altered in ASD.

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Joana M. Vilela is a fellow of the BioSys PhD Programme and a recipient of a PhD grant, with reference PD/BD/131390/2017, funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.