Post by momofautistic on Feb 26, 2005 0:09:02 GMT -5
Genomics Initiative
There is no doubt that traditional academic methods will find the genes for autism and these genes will lead us to biological treatments. The issue is when.
Cure Autism Now proposes to lead the charge by aggressive and focused grant making and contract work which will include fine mapping, SNP mapping, micro array work and the continued development and expansion of a central data repository for genomics information.
In an effort to facilitate the progress of discovery, Cure Autism Now founded and fully funds the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), an open gene bank with a large collection of immortalized cell lines and DNA samples from families with more than one child with autism. These samples and the accompanying clinical data are available to the entire scientific community.
The establishment of the AGRE has created an invaluable resource for the scientific community. When AGRE began, six researchers were studying the genetics of autism - today there are over 300.
In 2003 the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange will make the DNA samples of over 400 multiplex families available for study to all scientists and pharmaceuticals, thus making it the largest autism collections in the world and the only one that is open to the entire scientific community.
Our goal is to identify several of the genes involved in autism within the next three years.
There is no doubt that traditional academic methods will find the genes for autism and these genes will lead us to biological treatments. The issue is when.
Cure Autism Now proposes to lead the charge by aggressive and focused grant making and contract work which will include fine mapping, SNP mapping, micro array work and the continued development and expansion of a central data repository for genomics information.
In an effort to facilitate the progress of discovery, Cure Autism Now founded and fully funds the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), an open gene bank with a large collection of immortalized cell lines and DNA samples from families with more than one child with autism. These samples and the accompanying clinical data are available to the entire scientific community.
The establishment of the AGRE has created an invaluable resource for the scientific community. When AGRE began, six researchers were studying the genetics of autism - today there are over 300.
In 2003 the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange will make the DNA samples of over 400 multiplex families available for study to all scientists and pharmaceuticals, thus making it the largest autism collections in the world and the only one that is open to the entire scientific community.
Our goal is to identify several of the genes involved in autism within the next three years.
