CNTNAP2, contactin associated protein 2, 26047

N. diseases: 203; N. variants: 46
Disease: Autistic Disorder ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease HPO
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this issue of AJHG, Alarcón et al.,(1) Arking et al.,(2) and Bakkaloglu et al.(3) identify a series of functional variants in the CNTNAP2 gene that unequivocally implicate this gene as causing Type 1 autism in the general population. 18179879 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Together, these results provide convergent evidence for involvement of CNTNAP2, a Neurexin family member, in autism, and demonstrate a connection between genetic risk for autism and specific brain structures. 18179893 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease CTD_human We identified a common polymorphism in contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2), a member of the neurexin superfamily, that is significantly associated with autism susceptibility. 18179894 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A common genetic variant in the neurexin superfamily member CNTNAP2 increases familial risk of autism. 18179894 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN We identified a common polymorphism in contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2), a member of the neurexin superfamily, that is significantly associated with autism susceptibility. 18179894 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We focused our initial analysis on CNTNAP2 based on our demonstration of disruption of Contactin 4 (CNTN4) in a patient with ASD; the recent finding of rare homozygous mutations in CNTNAP2 leading to intractable seizures and autism; and in situ and biochemical analyses reported herein that confirm expression in relevant brain regions and demonstrate the presence of CNTNAP2 in the synaptic plasma membrane fraction of rat forebrain lysates. 18179895 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Pharmacological probing of type 1 autism. 18512134 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease CTD_human Identifying autism loci and genes by tracing recent shared ancestry. 18621663 2008
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two genes, CNTNAP2 and NOBOX, both contained within the deletion region, have been recently associated with autism susceptibility and premature ovarian failure, respectively. 18675947 2009
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A genetic defect causing autism and epilepsy involving the contactin associated protein-like 2 gene (CNTNAP2) has been discovered in a selected cohort of Amish children. 19302947 2009
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease CTD_human At a gene level, CAM genes associated in all three samples (NRXN1 and CNTNAP2), which were previously implicated in specific language disorder, autism and schizophrenia. 20157312 2011
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Polymorphisms of CNTNAP2 (contactin-associated like protein-2), a member of the neurexin family, have already been implicated as a susceptibility gene for autism by at least 3 separate studies. 20176116 2010
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The results of family-based association study suggested that the CNTNAP2 is a susceptibility gene of autism in the Chinese Han population. 20414140 2010
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The convergence between genetic findings and cognitive-behavioral models of autism provides evidence that genetic variation at CNTNAP2 predisposes to diseases such as autism in part through modulation of frontal lobe connectivity. 21048216 2010
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease CTD_human We propose that these CNTNAP2 variants increase susceptibility to SLI or autism when they occur together with other risk factors. 21310003 2011
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We propose that these CNTNAP2 variants increase susceptibility to SLI or autism when they occur together with other risk factors. 21310003 2011
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the current study we investigated the functional effects of variants of CNTNAP2 associated with autism and language impairment (rs7794745 and rs2710102; presumed risk alleles T and C, respectively) in healthy individuals using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during performance of a language task (n = 66). 21987501 2011
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease GWASDB Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders. 22843504 2012
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Using immunofluorescence confocal microscopy and complementary biochemical techniques, we compared wild-type CASPR2 to 12 point mutations identified in individuals with autism. 22872700 2012
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the contactin-associated protein 2 (CNTNAP2) gene encoding CASPR2, a neurexin-related cell-adhesion molecule, predispose to autism, but the function of CASPR2 in neural circuit assembly remains largely unknown. 23074245 2012
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE CNTNAP2 has been suggested to play an important role in mental diseases such as autism and language disorder. 23123147 2013
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Furthermore, we failed to replicate in our sample a previous association finding of two single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs2710102 and rs7794745) in the CNTNAP2 gene with autism. 23277129 2013
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE CNTNAP2 is a gene on chromosome 7 that has shown associations with autism and schizophrenia, and there is evidence that it plays an important role for neuronal synchronization and brain connectivity. 23871450 2013
CUI: C0004352
Disease: Autistic Disorder
Autistic Disorder 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Consequently, this study suggests that although CNTNAP2 dysregulation plays a role in some cases, its population contribution to autism susceptibility is limited. 24147096 2013