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Awardee

Elise Robinson, Sc.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Associate Member, Broad Institute
Website
robinsonlab.org

Publications

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis.

medRxiv, July 17, 2025

Zhang X., Grove J., Gu Y., Buus C.K., Nielsen L.K., Neufeld S.A.S., et al.

Phenotypic and ancestry-related assortative mating in autism.

Mol. Autism, June 14, 2024

Zhang J., Weissenkampen J.D., Kember R.L., iPSYCH Consortium, Grove J., Børglum A.D., et al.

Phenotype and genetic analysis of data collected within the first year of NeuroDev.

Neuron, September 20, 2023

Kipkemoi P., Kim H.A., Christ B., O’Heir E., Allen J., Austin-Tse C., et al.

Validity of the SNAP-IV for ADHD assessment in South African children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

J. Autism Dev. Disord., July 1, 2023

Zieff M.R., Hoogenhout M., Eastman E., Christ B.U., Galvin A., de Menil V., et al.

Projects

How does common polygenic variation create risk for autism?

Awarded 2025
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Characterizing the convergent molecular mechanisms of common and rare autism-associated genetic variation

Awarded 2020
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NeuroDev: Genetic characterization of neurodevelopmental disorders in African populations

Awarded 2018

Featuring Elise Robinson

Purkinje nerve cells in the cerebellum.

SFARI Hosts 2026 Investigator Meeting

SFARI spotlight image.

Announcing the Recipients of the 2025 Data Analysis Awards

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2022 Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Genetic Therapies Awardees Announced

A New Approach To Analyzing Genomic Association Data Finds Convergence of Both Rare and Common Genetic Influences on Autism at Chromosome 16p

Events

The genetic influences on autism spectrum disorder risk

Lecture

January 30, 2019

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Elise Robinson

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