Dr. Glessner’s current research focuses on childhood neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders along with the genetic architecture associated with them, including single nucleotide polymorphisms, single nucleotide variations, and copy number variations ascertained by genomic technologies.
After analyzing the DNA from thousands of patients, investigators from Children’s Hospital have uncovered several gene networks that may play important roles in autism.
Dr. Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital, led the study, which is the first to look at copy variation numbers in children that may be linked with human lifespan. Several gene variants can influence a person's potential lifespan by either raising the probability of developing a disease or by providing protection from disease, according to new
