This Week in Nature

Nov 01, 2007

In news, the Boston-based Autism Consortium released raw genotype data from 4,250 individuals — including people with autism, their parents and their siblings. Collaborating lead investigators Aravinda Chakravarti of Johns Hopkins and Mark Daly of the Autism Consortium hope to identify key variants over the next several months.

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