Author: Prov ON

A Powerhouse Collaboration: Your Genes Reach the “Cloud”

Recently, Autism Speaks announced that geneticist Stephen Scherer (Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto) as the new director of the Autism Speaks-led project. The first major announcement came from Dr. Scherer in a presentation at a conference in San Diego where he outlined the groundbreaking project “MSSNG” (pronounced missing). Vowels were intentionally removed…
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Autism Speaks Names Dr. Stephen Scherer Director of AUT10K

Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, has named renowned Canadian geneticist Stephen Scherer, Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSC, as director of the Autism Speaks Ten Thousand Genomes Program (AUT10K), a collaborative to develop the world’s largest database of complete genomic information on individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their family members. Read…
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