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These awards support interdisciplinary research into the sex bias associated with autism and its underlying biological mechanisms.

… SVs4, making it difficult to identify those relevant to disease. Comparing variants within families and against hundreds of long-read reference pangenomes allowed the team to filter …

On January 8–9, 2024, SFARI welcomed researchers to its second annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC).

On January 30–31, SFARI convened its first annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC). Funded in 2021, the SSDC collaboration consists of five groups of …

A recent study has uncovered new ASD inherited genetic risk variants. Over of the 50 percent of the genetic data used in the study came from SPARK.

Evan Eichler and colleagues used targeted sequencing in large neurodevelopmental cohorts, including SPARK, to identify new risk genes and relate genotype to phenotypic presentation.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund five collaborative groups in response to the 2020 SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism request for applications.

SFARI is pleased to announce that eight Director Awards were awarded in 2020. These projects include, but are not limited to, studies that aim to enhance existing SFARI …

SFARI announces that it has awarded six grants in response to the Genomic Analysis for Autism Risk Variants in SPARK request for applications. These grants will help to …

Evan Eichler and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of de novo mutations from individuals with ASD, intellectual disability or developmental delay and found new risk genes for neurodevelopmental …

SFARI held its thirteenth science meeting April 8–12, 2018. SFARI investigators, collaborators and foundation staff came together to discuss recent findings in autism genetics, molecular and system …

On April 10, 2018, SFARI held a workshop to discuss online platforms for visualizing and analyzing SFARI genomics data. These platforms included the Genotypes and Phenotypes in Families …

Evan Eichler and Robert Darnell provide deep whole genome sequencing of 516 families with idiopathic autism, providing insights into the complex etiology of simplex autism.