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Rare variants in axonogenesis genes connect three families with sound–color synesthesia
Edited by Edward M. Hubbard, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Randolph Blake January 23, 2018 (received for review September 5, 2017)

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- Amanda K. Tilota,
- Katerina S. Kuceraa,
- Arianna Vinoa,
- Julian E. Asherb,
- Simon Baron-Cohenb,1, and
- Simon E. Fishera,c,1,2
- aLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- bAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, United Kingdom;
- cDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Edited by Edward M. Hubbard, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Randolph Blake January 23, 2018 (received for review September 5, 2017)
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↵1S.B.-C. and S.E.F. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: simon.fisher{at}mpi.nl.
Author contributions: A.K.T., K.S.K., S.B.-C., and S.E.F. designed research; A.K.T., K.S.K., A.V., and J.E.A. performed research; A.K.T., K.S.K., A.V., and S.E.F. analyzed data; A.K.T. and S.E.F. wrote the paper; and J.E.A. and S.B.-C. collected synesthesia families.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. E.M.H. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
Data deposition: The datasets generated during the current study are available upon request from The Language Archive (TLA: https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?0), a public data archive hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The data are stored under the node IDs MPI1758324# and MPI1815362# and are accessible at https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-001A-8756-4@view.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1715492115/-/DCSupplemental.
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