Autism Spectrum Disorder: gene variants involved in the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway

A. R. Marques is recipient of a fellowship from BioSys PhD programme (Ref PD/BD/113773/2015 from FCT (Portugal). Patients and parents were genotyped in the context of the Autism Genome Project (AGP), funded by NIMH, HRB, MRC, Autism Speaks, Hilibrand Foundation, Genome Canada, OGI, CIHR, and the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC), a core project of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI).