AGP
The Autism Genome Project
 "Investigating the genetic basis of autism"

AGP News: Media Coverage

1. AGP Phase 2 project (2007-2010):

1.1 Recent News:

2010:

  • New! 9th June 2010: NEW AGP PAPER PUBLISHED TODAY IN NATURE:

  • Autism Speaks PRESS RELEASE

  • For further details, press releases from other AGP sites, and international media coverage: CLICK HERE

  • 30 March 2010. AGP researchers publish new paper in the journal Biological Psychiatry: "Characterization of a Family with Rare Deletions in CNTNAP5 and DOCK4 Suggests Novel Risk Loci for Autism and Dyslexia", Alistair T. Pagnamenta, Elena Bacchelli, Maretha V. de Jonge, et al. Biological Psychiatry. In Press. Corrected Proof. Online 26th March 2010. Link.

  • May 2010. AGP researchers to present AGP findings at IMFAR 2010 (May 20-22, Philadelphia, USA).

    •  Abstracts:

    • Genome-Wide Analysis Identifies Global Rare Variation in Autism.

    • Genetic analysis of latent phenotypes in autism spectrum disorders.

    • Genome-wide Association Analysis of Susceptibility Genes in Autism Using with a Gene-centric Approach

2009:

  • November 2009. AGP poster: accepted for the XVIIth World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), November 4 - 8, 2009, San Diego, CA (USA): "The Autism Genome Project: Genome-wide Association Studies in Autism".

  • 8th October 2009. AGP researchers collaborate with Johns Hopkins University on new autism study, published today in Nature, 461, 802-808: "A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism", by Lauren A. Weiss, Dan E. Arking and  The Gene Discovery Project of  Johns Hopkins and the Autism Consortium.[Link to Nature]
  • October 2009. AGP researchers collaborate on major new autism sequencing project. The US National Institute of Mental Health has used stimulus funding (total $8 million in fiscal year 2009) for a two-year collaborative project that will study the genetic architecture of autism by deep genomic sequencing.  [Link to full article].

  • 21-24 October 2009. A number of AGP collaborators made presentations and presented posters at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), held in Hawaii:

 Abstracts:

 

  • September 2009. A short review describing recent advances in CNVs found in psychiatric disorders has been published in the new journal, European Psychiatric Review. The AGP is acknowledged for use of the 1M SNP data showing reciprocal CNVs at the 22q11.2 locus, to help demonstrate the Non-Allelic Homologous Recombination mechanism.
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  • September 2009. Dr. Anney (UCD) presented a study on behalf of the AGP at the 12th Annual meeting of the The Irish Society of Human Genetics, Dublin. [Link to press release]

  • 30 April 2009. AGP collaborators participate in autism study, led by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), published today in Nature:

 Original Publications:

  • Wang et al, "Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders". Nature, published online 28 April 2009. [Abstract]

  • Glessner et al, “Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals 28 April 2009. [Abstract]

 Media coverage:

2008:

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1.2. Launch of AGP Phase 2 project (April 2007):

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2. AGP Phase 1 project (2004-7):

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