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AGP News: Media Coverage

1. AGP Phase 2 project (2007-):

1.1 Recent News:

2009-2010:

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2008:

• 7-11 December 2008. AGP poster presentations at the 47th ACNP Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona:

 Posters:

• The Autism Genome Project: Dissecting the genetic and genomic etiology of autism
  [Poster - password protected]

• Analysis of the EAAT2 glutamate transporter (SLC1A2) locus as an 11p13 positional candidate for autism
  [Poster - password protected]
  

• 11-15 November 2008. A number of AGP collaborators made presentations and presented posters at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), held in Philadelphia:

 Abstracts:

• New linkage analysis by the Autism Genome Project (AGP) reveals strong evidence of linkage to multiple loci as well as genegene interactions

• High-density SNP association and CNV analysis of two Autism Susceptibility Loci
  [Poster - password protected]

• Linkage and Candidate Gene Studies of Autism in EU Populations

• A robust copy number variation discovery algorithm for multiple array platforms

• The Autism Genome Project: Dissecting the genetic and genomic etiology of autism.

• Analysis of the EAAT2 glutamate transporter (SLC1A2) locus as an 11p13 positional candidate for autism

• Data coordinating infrastructure for the Autism Genome Project
  [Poster - password protected]

• Sex differences in repetitive stereotyped behaviours in autism: implications for genetic liability

• Phenotypically homogeneous autism families yields evidence for epistasis between engrailed 2 and loci on 13q13 and 13q14

• Genome-wide Association Mapping in Multiplex Autism Families

 

• 1 September 2008. Conference paper mentions AGP: "The first autism disease genes", presented at the 21st Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2008, Barcelona, Spain.



• 11 August 2008. Simons Foundation article reports on new AGP publication: "Grouping similar traits in autism uncovers new genetic culprits".



• 1 July 2008. New AGP publication: "Genome-wide Linkage Analyses of Quantitative and Categorical Autism Subphenotypes". Biological Psychiatry 2008 Jul 15. Epub ahead of print. [Full article (pdf)]



• 2nd April 2008: World Autism Day: AGP presented at the UN:

To celebrate the first ever United Nations (UN) sanctioned World Autism Awareness Day, the UN held a Panel Discussion on autism. The event was sponsored by the Government of the State of Qatar in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Autism Speaks.

Prof Monaco (WTCHG) was one of the international group of speakers to discuss the global aspect of autism. In his presentation he referred to the ongoing work of the AGP.

• Further information and link to webcast

• Further information on World Autism Day from Autism Speaks

• Press Conference by Qatar on world autism day resolution: During the Second Annual International Forum for Children with Special Needs held in Doha in April, Autism Speaks and Qatar’s Shaffalah Centre, which assists disabled children, announced plans to launch an Autism Speaks Programme in Qatar.

• February 2008: Autism Speaks:
  "Top 10 autism research events in 2007" (includes AGP study).
  
  
• January 2008: New paper linking autism to copy number variations (CNVs) on chromosome 16 builds on AGP findings:
  Toronto / Hospital for Sick Children Press Release
  
  
• 11 January 2008. (USA): Publication of results of
  Broad Institute study on genetic susceptibility in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Press Release from Autism Speaks
  
  
• 4 December 2007. (USA): Autism Speaks announces a new collaboration with the Broad Institute to study genetic susceptibility in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Press Release

 

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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