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Analysis of Postmortem Brain Tissue from the Autism BrainNet Collection — Request for Applications

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Program Area
Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Type
Investigator Award

Impact

Laboratory scene with test tubes in a plastic rack, a pipette, glass vials, and a microscope on a data sheet background, all shown with a blue and yellow tint.

Topology of cortical and thalamic gene expression changes in autism

Awarded 2022
Laboratory scene with test tubes in a plastic rack, a pipette, glass vials, and a microscope on a data sheet background, all shown with a blue and yellow tint.

Cellular resolution multi-omics of white matter tracts in autism

Awarded 2022
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Identification and impact of somatic mutations in regulatory regions in autism brain

Awarded 2022
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  1. Application Available

    November 22, 2021

  2. Application Deadline

    January 10, 2022

  3. Award Notification

    April 29, 2022

  4. Awards Start

    July 1, 2022

Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance the understanding of ASD through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet collection.

Through this RFA, we encouraged individual and collaborative applications that study and compare gene expression at the tissue and single-cell level. Such analyses could also have included alternative splicing/isoform analysis, RNA editing, noncoding RNAs, epigenetic modifications and/or proteomics. We also welcomed studies of cellular neuroanatomy and immunohistochemical research on identified transmitter systems.

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