Analysis of haploinsufficiency in human neural progenitor cells: insights into early molecular effects of autism-related genes.
This work differentiated a genome-wide heterozygous loss-of-function CRISPR library into neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and defined about 250 genes essential for neural differentiation in a haploinsufficient manner, and offers new insights into the embryonic molecular basis of ASD and other NDDs driven by gene dosage imbalance.