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We are also working on IPSC's from the participants in this longitudinal sample, using the blood samples we've acquired since 2007 or so.

Now if we can just find the grant money to get the DNA sequences read for all those samples...

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done.

Don't count on it. My experience is that funding goes to those who are not serious about autism epidemiology. Back in the mid-1990s, I was at a startup in Silicon Valley with about 100 employees where, during a few year period, 5 of the employees had children diagnosed with autism severe enough that they were barely verbal at best. This struck me as a great opportunity to discover the cause so I contacted a Berkeley epidemiologist who had been funded to do autism research. His comment was simply that "Yes we know that these microclusters exist." and that was that. No follow up.

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