The Autism Genetic Resource Exchange is a program of Autism Speaks and is supported, in part, by grant 1U24MH081810 from the National Institute of Mental Health to Clara M. Lajonchere. This work is supported by a seed grant from Penn/CHOP Center for Autism Research, by NIH grant R01MH604687, and a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award; by Pennsylvania Commonwealth HRFF and P20-GM69012; by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (1 Z01 AG000949-02); by a fellowship from the Tourette Syndrome Association; by an Autism Center of Excellence Award (P50HD055784-01); by an Autism Center of Excellence Genetics Network grant (MH081754); by a Research Award from the Margaret Q. Landenberger Foundation; by a Research Development Award from the Cotswold Foundation; and by UL1-RR024134-03. The genotyping and other aspects of the study were funded by an Institutional Development Award to the Center for Applied Genomics from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Citation: Bucan M, Abrahams BS, Wang K, Glessner JT, Herman EI, et al. (2009) Genome-Wide Analyses of Exonic Copy Number Variants in a Family-Based Study Point to Novel Autism Susceptibility Genes. PLoS Genet 5(6): e1000536. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000536

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