Environment-Wide Association Study in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Fecha

20/09/2017

Hora

10.00 h.

Lugar

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Xipre Room
(Carrer Doctor Aiguader, 88) Barcelona

Ponente

Sek Won Kong (Harvard Medical School)

Dr. Sek Won Kong, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member of the Computational Health Informatics Program, will offer a talk entitled "Environment-Wide Association Study in Autism Spectrum Disorder". Free entrance.

Dr. Kong developed a prediction model for ASD using blood gene expression profiles that achieved above 70% accuracy. He is currently working on supplementing this research with the identification of heterogeneous subgroups within ASD by integrating transcriptomic signature with sequence variants (genome), clinical characteristics (phenome), and environmental risk factors (exposome).