Guest guest Posted April 4, 2004 Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 www.autismresearch.ca Below is a quote from Jeanette Holden, Program Director of the ASD- CARC. Please consider visiting the website and registering your family for this important research. " Our hope is to recruit 10,000 families to participate in our research – most of these families will participate by completing questionnaires and by providing us with a small sample (blood, saliva or cheek swab) for genetic studies. Other families will be invited to participate in more detailed assessments – various interviews, diagnostic assessments and other studies relating to processing information, brain imaging, dysmorphology, etc.. Why do we need 10,000 families for our study? The reason is that we believe autism spectrum disorders are actually a group of disorders – there may be 10 or more different types of ASDs – all sharing some behaviors and other family characteristics. In order to identify both genetic and environmental factors that contribute to these conditions, we need to divide families into " subgroups " that are more " homogeneous " – i.e. very similar or identical to one another. Some subgroups may be more common than others and, for this reason, all families are important. " www.autismresearch.ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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