A team of researchers, led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has published a paper in the July 31, 2007 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which describes a unified genetics model that predicts two different risk patterns for autism. (The full citation of the paper being published in the July 31, 2007 print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, entitled A Unified Theory for Sporadic and Inherited Autism.)
July 25, 2007 - Autism Speaks
As mutations of neurexin and neuroligin genes appear to be linked to autism, these models provide a structural framework for understanding altered recognition by these proteins in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Science Direct: STRUCTURE
Volume 15, Issue 6, 13 June 2007, Pages 693-705
The Exploring Autism http://www.exploringautism.org/about.htmwebsite is the result of a collaboration between researchers, non-profit groups, and families who are living with autism. Organizations who make this site possible range from major universities and medical centers to the National Alliance for Autism Research.
To help us reach the goal of discovering the genetic, or inherited causes of autism, we collaborate with other researchers and medical centers. Our growing team now includes other experts in the fields of autism and genetic research. Our collaborators include Robert DeLong, MD of Duke University Medical Center, Dr.'s Ruth Abrahmson, Mike Curcarro and Harry Wright of the W.S. Hall Psychiatric Institute (Columbia, SC), Joseph Piven, MD at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), Susan Folstein, MD at Tufts University (Boston, MA), Nina Sajaniemi, PhD at Helsinki University Central Hospitial (Helsinki, Finland), and their research groups.
The goal of AGRE is to facilitate more rapid progress in the identification of the genetic underpinnings of autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders by making this information available to the scientific community.
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