Relevance to Autism

This gene was identified by TADA (transmission and de novo association) analysis of a combined dataset from the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) and the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC) as a gene strongly enriched for variants likely to affect ASD risk with a false discovery rate (FDR) of <0.1 (Sanders et al., 2015); among the variants identified in this gene was one de novo loss-of-function (LoF) variant.

Molecular Function

This gene encodes an olfactory receptor, which interacts with odorant molecules in the nose to initiate a neuronal response that triggers the perception of a smell.

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