Rare variants in axonogenesis genes connect three families with sound–color synesthesia

Amanda K. Tilot, Katerina S. Kucera, Arianna Vino, Julian E. Asher, Simon Baron-Cohen, and Simon E. Fisher
PNAS March 20, 2018 115 (12) 3168-3173; published ahead of print March 5, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715492115

  1. 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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vol. 115 no. 12 3168-3173
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715492115
PubMed: 
29507195
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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
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  • Published in issue March 20, 2018.
  • Published first March 5, 2018.

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  1. Amanda K. Tilota,
  2. Katerina S. Kuceraa,
  3. Arianna Vinoa,
  4. Julian E. Asherb,
  5. Simon Baron-Cohenb,1, and
  6. Simon E. Fishera,c,1,2
  1. aLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
  2. bAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, United Kingdom;
  3. cDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  1. 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)

Footnotes

  • ↵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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Rare variants in axonogenesis genes connect three families with sound–color synesthesia
Amanda K. Tilot, Katerina S. Kucera, Arianna Vino, Julian E. Asher, Simon Baron-Cohen, Simon E. Fisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2018, 115 (12) 3168-3173; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715492115
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