Abstract Diverse risk genes have been identified for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), but how these genes converge on similar biological pathways in neurons, and thus give rise to similar phenotypes, is unclear. Here we apply a pooled CRISPR approach to successfully target 23 NDD loss-of-function genes with roles in chromatin biology and examine convergent effects on gene expression across human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells, glutamatergic neurons and GABAergi
Transcriptomic and phenotypic convergence of neurodevelopmental disorder risk genes in vitro and in vivo
Meilin Fernandez Garcia·Kristen Brennand·April Pruitt·Elizabeth A. Davidson·Novin Balafkan·Jonathan Warrell·Tzu-Chieh Huang·Alfred Kibowen·Zhiyuan Chu·Yi Dai·Sarah E. Fitzpatrick·Ran Meng·Annabel Sen·Sophie Cohen·Olivia Livoti·Suha Khan·Charlotte Becker·André Luíz Teles e Silva·Jenny Liu·Grace Dossou·Jen Cheung·Susanna Liu·Sadaf Ghorbani·PJ Michael Deans·Marisa DeCiucis·Prashant Emani·Huanyao Gao·Hongying Shen·Mark Gerstein·Zuoheng Wang·Laura M. Huckins·Ellen J. Hoffman·Kayla Retallick-Townsley
