7th Annual International Meeting For Autism Research ... - Confex

Program
1:30 130.2
Altered tryptophan metabolism in autistic children may account
for the paradox of elevated plasma serotonin and depressed
central serotonergic function. A. Boasso* 1 , D. Fuchs 2 , S. J.
Spence 3 , A. Thurm 3 , G. M. Shearer 1 and S. E. Swedo 3 , (1)
National Institutes of Health - National Cancer Institute, (2)
Innsbruck Medical University, (3)National Institutes of Health -
National Institute of Mental Health
1:45 130.3
Relationship between ASD Diagnosis and Developmental,
Psychiatric, Medical, and Concurrent Diagnoses or Symptoms in
Children Age 8 Years in 2002. S. E. Levy* 1 , L. C. Lee 2 , E. Giarelli 3 ,
L. Schieve 4 , R. S. Kirby 5 , C. Cuniff 6 , J. A. Reaven 7 , J. Nicholas 8 ,
J. Pinto-Martin 3 and C. E. Rice 4 , (1)Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Public Health, (3)
University of Pennsylvania, (4)National Center on Birth Defects
and Developmental Disabilities, (5)University of Alabama at
Birmingham, (6)University of Arizona College of Medicine, (7)
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, (8)Medical
University of South Carolina
2:00 130.4
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS):
Standardizing Scores For A Measure Of ASD Severity. K.
Gotham*, S. Risi and C. Lord, University of Michigan Autism and
Communication Disorders Center
2:15 130.5
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Identification of Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorders. D. S. Mandell* 1 , L. D. Wiggins 2 ,
L. A. Carpenter 3 , C. DiGuiseppi 4 , M. Durkin 5 , E. Giarelli 6 , M. J.
Morrier 7 , J. S. Nicholas 3 , J. Pinto-Martin 6 , P. Shattuck 8 , K. C.
Thomas 9 , M. Yeargin-Allsopp 10 and R. S. Kirby 11 , (1)University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, (2)Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, (3)Medical University of South Carolina,
(4)University of Colorado, Denver, (5)University of Wisconsin-
Madison, (6)University of Pennsylvania, (7)Emory University, (8)
Washington University, (9)University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, (10)Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, (11)University
of Alabama at Birmingham
2:30 130.6
Identifying Very Early Behavioral Predictors of Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD) in NICU Infants. J. M. Gardner*, B. Z. Karmel,
L. D. Swensen, I. L. Cohen, E. M. Lennon, P. M. Kittler, R. L.
Freedland, M. J. Flory and E. London, NYS Institute for Basic
Research in Developmental Disabilities
2:45 130.7
Associations of Postural Knowledge and Basic Motor Skill With
Dyspraxia In Autism: Implication for Abnormalities in Distributed
Connectivity and Motor Learning. L. R. Dowell, E. M. Mahone
and S. H. Mostofsky*, Kennedy Krieger Institute
3:00 130.8
Immune Comorbidities in Children with Autism Spectrum
Disorders. L. A. Croen* 1 , L. L. Tee 1 , B. Fireman 1 , A. Leong 1 , L. F.
Barcellos 2 and P. Bernal 1 , (1)Kaiser Permanente, (2)UC Berkeley
School of Public Health
Oral Presentations
131 Human Genetic Studies
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM - Bourgogne
1:15 131.1
Further Evidence Supporting Oxytocin Receptor in an Irish
Sample. K. Tansey*, R. Anney, L. E. Cochrane, M. Gill and L.
Gallagher, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
1:30 131.2
Autism Associated Alleles Affect the Regulation of the
Homeobox Gene, ENGRAILED 2. R. Benayed 1 , J. Choi 1 , P. G.
Matteson 1 , N. Gharani 2 , S. Kamdar 1 , V. Vieland 3 , L. Brzustowicz 2
and J. H. Millonig* 1 , (1)UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, (2)Rutgers University, (3)The Research Institute at
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
1:45 131.3
Association of familial autism with imprinted locus on 7q32. E.
Korvatska* and G. D. Schellenberg, University of Washington
2:00 131.4
Genetic analyses of serotonergic factors in autism. K.
Nakamura* 1 , A. Ayyappan 1 , K. Yamada 2 , S. Suda 1 , M. Tsujii 3 ,
Y. Iwayama 2 , T. Miyachi 1 , H. Matsuzaki 4 , K. Tsuchiya 1 , T.
Sugiyama 5 , N. Takei 1 , T. Yoshikawa 2 and N. Mori 1 , (1)Hamamatsu
University School of Medicine, (2)RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
(3)Chukyo University, (4)Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka
University, (5)Aichi Chilren’s Health and Medical Center
2:15 131.5
A PPP1R1B Polymorphism is Associated with Risk for Autism
Spectrum Disorders in Male-only Affected Sib-pair Families.
J. A. Hettinger* 1 , X. Liu 1 , M. Hudson 2 , R. C. Michaelis 3 , C. E.
Schwartz 4 , M. E. S. Lewis 5 and J. J. A. Holden 1 , (1)Queen’s
University, (2)Queen’s Univerity, (3)Western Carolina University,
(4)Greenwood Genetic Center, (5)University of British Columbia
2:30 131.6
Genomic Instability In Post-Mortem Autistic Brains And
Correlation With Gene Expression Levels. R. Sacco* 1 , B. Boone 2 ,
K. Garbett 3 , C. Lintas 1 , K. Mirnics 3 , S. Levy 2 , P. Levitt 3 and A. M.
Persico 1 , (1)Univ. Campus Bio-Medico, (2)Vanderbilt Microarray
Shared Resource, (3)Vanderbilt Univ.
2:45 131.7
CNV Regions Associated with Autism in a Large Icelandic
Cohort. R. Fossdal* 1 , S. Steinberg 1 , P. Magnusson 2 , B. Lauth 2 ,
O. O. Gudmundsson 2 , S. Hreidarsson 3 , E. Saemundsen 3 , G.
Bjornsdottir 1 , H. Einarsdottir 1 , H. Stefansson 1 , J. Gulcher 1 , K.
Kristjansson 1 , T. E. Thorgeirsson 1 and K. Stefansson 1 , (1)deCODE
genetics Inc., (2)Landspitali University Hospital, (3)State
Diagnostic and Counseling Center
3:00 131.8
Family-based genome-wide association study in autism. D.
Ma* 1 , I. Konidari 1 , J. Jaworski 1 , P. Whitehead 1 , H. H. Wright 2 ,
R. K. Abramson 2 , J. Haines 3 , M. Cuccaro 1 , J. Gilbert 1 and M.
Pericak-Vance 1 , (1)Miami institute of human genomics, (2)Univ.
S. Carolina Sch. Med., (3)Center for Human Genetics
Oral Presentations
132 Autism Model Systems
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM - Avize-Morangis
3:45 132.1
A Genetically Accurate Mouse Model of Autism: Disease-linked
Point Mutation in Neuroligin-3 Produces Autism-like Behavior
in Mice. K. Tabuchi, J. Blundell, M. R. Etherton, R. Hammer,
X. Liu, T. Sudhof and C. M. Powell*, The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
4:00 132.2
Generation and characterization of Neuroligin-3 knock down
mice for Autism Research. G. Y. Wen*, Y. W. Hwang, M. H. Lee, C.
Corbo, E. C. Jenkins, S. R. Guariglia and W. T. Brown, New York
State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities
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