This work underlines the importance to consider a CHD2 involvement in children with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder even in the absence of epilepsy at an early age.
Pathogenic CNVs, often showing variable expressivity, included rare de novo and inherited events at 36 loci, implicating ASD-associated genes (CHD2, HDAC4, and GDI1) previously linked to other neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as other genes such as SETD5, MIR137, and HDAC9.
Germline mosaicism for a novel missense variant p.Thr645Met located in the SNF2-related ATP dependent helicase domain of CHD2 in 2 affected siblings with autism spectrum disorder.