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Frontiers | Drug repurposing candidates to treat core symptoms in autism spectrum disorder
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Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research , University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway34Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by high heritability and clinical heterogeneity. The main core symptoms are social communication deficits. There are no medications approved for the treatment of these symptoms, and medications used to treat non-specific symptoms have serious side effects.

Thereafter, we evaluated if these drugs can change ASD-associated gene expression perturbations in genes in the ASD network. This was done by analyses of drug-induced versus ASD-associated gene expression, where opposite gene expression perturbations in drug versus ASD indicate that the drug could counteract ASD-associated perturbations.

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