Kaiser To Launch Large-Scale Autism Research Project
In July, Kaiser Permanente will begin recruiting 5,000 Northern California families who have a child with autism for a large-scale genetic research project. The project -- which will include two genetic parents and a child from each family, for a total of 15,000 individuals -- aims to better understand the causes of autism and factors behind the acceleration of the disease by collecting detailed genetic, medical and environmental information over a three year period.
- "Kaiser To Look for Autism's Causes in Large-Scale Study" (Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/31).