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David Amaral, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Director of Research, The MIND Institute, University of California, Davis
  • Scientific Director, Autism BrainNet
Website
profiles.ucdavis.edu/david.amaral

Publications

m6A-mRNA reader YTHDF2 identified as a potential risk gene in autism with disproportionate megalencephaly.

Autism Res., May 1, 2025

Nishizaki S.S., Haghani N.K., La G.N., Mariano N.A.F., Uribe-Salazar J.M., Kaya G., et al.

A subphenotype-to-genotype approach reveals disproportionate megalencephaly autism risk genes.

medRxiv, December 21, 2022

Nishizaki S.S., Mariano N.A.F., La G.N., Uribe-Salazar J.M., Kaya G., Andrews D.S., et al.

Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation.

Cell, November 10, 2022

Trost B., Thiruvahindrapuram B., Chan A.J.S., Engchuan W., Higginbotham E.J., Howe J.L., et al.

Autism BrainNet.

Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med., March 31, 2021

M. Anderson, Quinton R., Kelly K., Falzon A., Halladay A., Schumann C.M., et al.

Projects

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SPARK

Awarded 2016
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A non-human primate autism model based on maternal infection

Awarded 2007

Featuring David Amaral

National Academy of Medicine Feature

SFARI Investigators Elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019

Events

Imaging early brain development in autism

Lecture

February 26, 2014

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

David Amaral

Headshot of SFARI Investigator David Amaral.

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