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Autism BrainNet (ABN) announces the release of genetic data from the laboratories of Tomasz Nowakowski and Stephan Sanders. This release includes omics data from studies of postmortem brain …

… distinction lets researchers separate genetics from environment. A sibling with more of the genetic variants linked to a trait, such as shyness, tended to score higher on …

… reported that measures of gene expression and chromatin accessibility across the genome followed patterns specific to the XX or XY status of an individual cell, regardless of …

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

On January 27–28, the Simons Foundation held the third annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC). Formed in 2021, this collaboration seeks to understand the …

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 …

SFARI is pleased to announce that seven Director Awards were awarded in 2021. These projects include, but are not limited to, studies that aim to develop new tools …

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.

On February 6–7, 2020, SFARI convened a two-day workshop to explore the possibility of gene therapies for autism spectrum disorder.

Genetic dark matter makes up 98 percent of our genomes, yet scientists are still figuring out how it works.

To speed discovery, SFARI decided to break the traditional approach in which each laboratory collects its own datasets and keeps them close to the vest.

SFARI is pleased to announce that is intends to fund 12 grants in response to the Summer 2019 Pilot Award request for applications.

Kevin Bender, Stephan Sanders and colleagues show that there is an unexpectedly critical role for the autism risk gene Scn2a, which encodes the sodium channel NaV1.2, in …

Kyle Kai-How Farh and Stephan Sanders developed a deep-learning method to predict risk mutations that affect mRNA splicing and contribute substantially to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Stephan Sanders and colleagues used a machine learning approach to analyze whole-genome sequencing data from more than 1,900 SSC families and found that de novo noncoding …

Genome-wide analysis the first to uncover a role for mutations in the noncoding portion of the genome in any human condition

SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 36 grants (15 Pilot Awards and 21 Research Awards) in response to the 2018 Pilot and Research Awards …

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 …