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Headshot of SFARI Investigator A. Ercüment Çiçek.
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Awardee

A. Ercüment Çiçek, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Associate Professor, Bilkent University

Publications

DeepND: Deep multitask learning of gene risk for comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.

Patterns (N. Y.), June 2, 2022

Beyreli I., Karakahya O., and A. E. Çiçek

De novo missense variants disrupting protein-protein interactions affect risk for autism through gene co-expression and protein networks in neuronal cell types.

Mol. Autism, October 7, 2020

Chen S., Wang J., A. E. Çiçek, K. Roeder, H. Yu, and B. Devlin

Whole-genome and RNA sequencing reveal variation and transcriptomic coordination in the developing human prefrontal cortex.

Cell Rep., April 6, 2020

D. Werling, Pochareddy S., Choi J., An J.Y., Sheppard B., Peng M., et al.

Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism.

Cell, February 5, 2020

Satterstrom F.K., Kosmicki J.A., Wang J., Breen M.S., De Rubeis S., An J.Y., et al.

Projects

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Speeding up autism gene discovery via deep multitask learning of data from cohorts of comorbid neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders

Awarded 2019
Colorful DNA sequencing chromatogram showing overlapping peaks and corresponding DNA base letters (A, T, C, G) on a black background, representing genetic data analysis.

Spatio-temporal gene discovery for autism spectrum disorder

Awarded 2016

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SFARI Summer 2019 Pilot Awardees Announced

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SFARI is the Simons Foundation’s autism research program, advancing the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through funding, collaboration, and open science.

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