Science Market Update

UCSD Autism Research Advances Continue Despite Shortage of Brain Tissue

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Wed, Feb 06, 2013

 

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University of Illinois at Chicago Autism Clinical Trials

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Tue, Jan 22, 2013

The University of Illinois at Chicago was recently awarded  $9.6 million in the form of a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish an Autism Center of Excellence. The center will be one of five funded centers in the United States, and it is the only one in the Midwest. Nationally, the NIH awards $100 million for the Autism Centers of Excellence research program.

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Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Makes Headlines with Autism Research Study Results

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Wed, Apr 11, 2012

If you watch the evening news in Northern California, it's not unusual to hear the results of studies being done at Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center campus, especially if those results are raising eyebrows. But an autism study out of the M.I.N.D. Institute at UCDMC has gone national recently, appearing on dozens of media outlets, as well as in Monday's issue of the journal Pediatrics.  The news? Research study results showing a corellation between a mother's obesity during pregnancy and increased risk for autism in her child. More specifically, women with metabolic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension were 1.6 times more likely to have children with autism spectrum disorders than healthy women.

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DNA Sequencing Technology Advanced by Emory Geneticists for Autism Research

Posted by BCI Staff on Fri, Oct 28, 2011

Michael E. Zwick is a geneticist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and his recently published study in October's Genomics journal on Identifying Autism Susceptibility Genes explores a new PCR technology for rapid, targeted, and highly accurate sequencing and identification of novel genetic variants affecting X chromosome genes.  Autism is four times more common in men, who possess only one copy of the X chromosome, and Zwick's research explores this possible correlation.

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UW Genomics Researchers Find Genes Linked to Autism in the Exome

Posted by Dylan Fitzwater on Mon, Jul 04, 2011

A team of Genomics Researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle have recently uncovered several sporadic gene mutations in the protein producing areas of the genome, called the exome, that may be linked to autism spectrum disorders. The scientists used the latest molecular biology techniques as well as parallel sequencing to simultaneously examine the exomes of several children with a certain form of autism.

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Tags: WA, Northwest, genome research, WA research, Autism, Exome, Genomics, Univ of Washington

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