Autism

Columbus Children’s Research Institute Plays Major Role in Autism Genome Project

Published in Biotech Business Week, March 19th, 2007

Preliminary results from the largest genome scan ever attempted in autism research have just been published in Nature Genetics. Investigators from Columbus Children’s Research Institute at Columbus Children’s Hospital, joined scientists from around the world to form the first-of-its-kind autism genetics consortium known as the Autism Genome Project (AGP).

The international collaboration was funded by Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of autism, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Center for Quantitative and Computational Biology at Columbus Children’s Research Institute is the project’s Data Coordinating Site, playing a...

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