Article Information
- Received October 20, 2013
- Revision received February 13, 2014
- Accepted March 9, 2014
- First published April 30, 2014.
- Version of record published April 30, 2014.
Author Information
- Julia P. Owen1,2,
- Yi Shin Chang1,
- Nicholas J. Pojman3,
- Polina Bukshpun3,
- Mari L.J. Wakahiro3,
- Elysa J. Marco3,
- Jeffrey I. Berman4,
- John E. Spiro5,
- Wendy K. Chung6,
- Randy L. Buckner7,
- Timothy P.L. Roberts4,
- Srikantan S. Nagarajan1,2,
- Elliott H. Sherr3, and
- Pratik Mukherjee1,2
- for the Simons VIP Consortium
- 1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94107,
- 2Program in Bioengineering,
- 3Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158,
- 4Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104,
- 5Simons Foundation, New York, New York 10010,
- 6Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, and
- 7Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Author contributions
Author contributions: J.E.S., W.K.C., R.L.B., T.P.L.R., S.S.N., E.H.S., and P.M. designed research; J.P.O., Y.S.C., N.J.P., P.B., M.L.J.W., E.J.M., J.I.B., and P.M. performed research; J.P.O., N.J.P., P.B., M.L.J.W., E.J.M., E.H.S., and P.M. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; J.P.O., Y.S.C., and P.M. analyzed data; J.P.O., J.E.S., W.K.C., E.H.S., and P.M. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received October 20, 2013.
- Revision received February 13, 2014.
- Accepted March 9, 2014.
This work was supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation [Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Award #220843 to E.H.S.]. We are grateful to all of the families at the participating Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP) sites, as well as the Simons VIP working group (Simons VIP Consortium, 2012). We appreciate obtaining access to phenotypic data on SFARI Base.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD, Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, UCSF Box 0946, 185 Berry Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94107. pratik.mukherjee{at}ucsf.edu