The Disruption Ofcelf6, a Gene Identified by Translational Profiling
2732 • The Journal of Neuroscience, February 13, 2013 • 33(7):2732–2753 Neurobiology of Disease The Disruption of Celf6, a Gene Identified by Translational Profiling of Serotonergic Neurons, Results in Autism-Related Behaviors Joseph D. Dougherty,1,2 Susan E. Maloney,1,2 David F. Wozniak,2 Michael A. Rieger,1,2 Lisa Sonnenblick,3,4,5 Giovanni Coppola,4 Nathaniel G. Mahieu,1 Juliet Zhang,6 Jinlu Cai,8 Gary J. Patti,1 Brett S. Abrahams,8 Daniel H. Geschwind,3,4,5 and Nathaniel Heintz6,7 Departments of 1Genetics and 2Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, 3UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, 4Program in Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, and 5Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, 6Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and 7The GENSAT Project, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, and 8Departments of Genetics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461 The immense molecular diversity of neurons challenges our ability to understand the genetic and cellular etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. Leveraging knowledge from neurobiology may help parse the genetic complexity: identifying genes important for a circuit that mediates a particular symptom of a disease may help identify polymorphisms that contribute to risk for the disease as a whole. The serotonergic system has long been suspected in disorders that have symptoms of repetitive behaviors and resistance to change, including autism. We generated a bacTRAP mouse line to permit translational profiling of serotonergic neurons.
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