:Genetics

The Dr. Eric Fombonne, of the institute of research of the MUHC in the hospital of the children of Montreal, is involved in one consortium of the multi-place to collect samples of the DNA of 2.000 patients of autism and its families on the three following years.

The simple collection of Simons (SSC) is a coordinate effort to create a database of the information genetic and behavioral on the cases where it only has a member of the family with autism. This group, that represents the great majority of disorders of spectrum of autism, expects to lead to the discovery of the new factors genetic that they increase the risk of autism.

Beyond, this database will be accessible in line for the scientific community and will represent a tool invaluable for the future projects of research.

“this database will bind to the advanced analysis genetic to the evaluations behavioral very detailed. This is a project unprecedented that it could extremely enhance our understanding of underlying biological processes, “explains the Dr. Fombonne. “this is an important stage for unraveling of mechanisms genetic and the understanding of pathophysiology of this disorder of the development of the brain.”

The families currently are being enlisted to participate in an initial evaluation and then they can be invited to participate in other projects of research while the work continues. Those eligible ones to participate are families with only a child with disorder of spectrum of autism (ASD) that it is four years of age or older; with one or more siblings without a ASD, ages the four or oldest one; e biological parents without a ASD and who is made use to participate. The eligible children with a ASD will receive an evaluation behavioral and all the members of the family will donate the blood, a source of the DNA. A small number of the families with nenhuns siblings or siblings under the age of four can be eligible to participate in the study.

“the MUHC is committed to enlist 200 families for the 2009 end. This represents an important challenge, but being the only center in Canada we wait to be able to attract the required number of English talkative patients, “we say the Dr. Fombonne.

Beyond to the research institute of the MUHC, the SSC will be lead in the university of Baylor, in the university of Colombia, the university of Emory, the university of Harvard, the university of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in the university of Illinois-Chicago, the university of Michigan, the university of Missouri, the university of Washington, the university of Vanderbilt, the university of Washington, and the university of Yale.

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The Dr. Eric Fombonne is the receiver of the chair of the research of Canada in psychiatry of child. He is the director of the department of psychiatry in the hospital and the head of the children of Montreal of the division of psychiatry of child in the university of McGill. She is also co-leader “of the mental central line of the illness and addiction” of the institute of research of the MUHC.

The center of the health of the university of McGill (MUHC) is an institution academic detailed of the health with an international reputation for excellence in programs, the research and teaching physicians. Its hospitals of the partner are the hospital of the children of Montreal, the general hospital of Montreal, the real hospital of Victoria, the neurological hospital of Montreal, the institute of the box of Montreal and the hospital of Lachine. The objective of the MUHC is to supply to the established patient care in the knowledge most advanced in the field of the care of health and contribuiz it it the development of the new knowledge http://www.muhc.ca/

The hospital of the children of Montreal is the hospital teaching pediatric of the center of the health of the university of McGill (MUHC). The institution is a leader in the care and the treatment of infants, sick children, and adolescents through Quebeque. The hospital of the children of Montreal supplies to a high level and a wide space of services of the care of health, and supplies the extreme care specialized in many fields including: cardiology and surgery cardiac; neurology and neurosurgery, traumatology; research genetic; development of psychiatry and the musculoskeletal child and conditions, including orthopedics and rheumatology. Bilingual and entirely multicultural, the institution serves respectfully to a community more than each more diverse time in 50 languages http://www.thechildren.com/

The institute of research of the center of the health of the university of McGill (MUHC LAUGHS) is a center biomedical world-world-renowned and of the health-care of the research hospital. Located in Montreal, Quebeque, the institute is the arm of the MUHC, the center of the research of the health of the university affiliated with the college of the medicine in the university of McGill. The sustentations of the institute on 600 investigators, almost graduated and 1200 students post-doctoral and more than operate 300 laboratories devoted to one spectrum wide of the basic and clinical research. The research institute is operated in forefront of the knowledge, the innovation and the technology and is on inextricably to the clinical programs of the MUHC, making sure itself of that the patients if benefit directly of the the most delayed research-base knowledge.

The institute of research of the MUHC is supported in the part for sant du QubecFonds of la recherche en.

For the visit additional of the details: http://www.muhc.ca/research.

Source: Isabelle Kling
Center Of The Health Of The UniversityMcGill