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QCBio Research Seminar: Chloe Yap (Gandal), Visiting Graduate Student, University of Queensland

November 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

TITLE: “Restricted diet drives autism gut-microbiome associations, and other tales from the Australian Autism Biobank”

ABSTRACT: The Australian Autism Biobank (AAB) is an initiative of the Autism CRC – the first national, cooperative research effort focused on autism across the lifespan. The AAB recruited a total of ~2,500 autistic children, family members, and unrelated undiagnosed children, and couples deep phenotypic information with multi-omic datasets (SNP genotyping, stool metagenomics, DNA methylation, metabolomics, WGS). One particularly controversial area in the field has been the potential causal contribution of the gut microbiome to autism. I will present results from one of the largest metagenomics study of the autism stool microbiome to date (n=246, including 99 children diagnosed with autism). We propose a model whereby microbiome changes in autistic children may reflect consequences of behaviour and dietary preferences, and we caution against undue emphasis on the microbiome having an upstream role in autism.

 

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November 17, 2021
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
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QCBio

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Boyer 159
611 Charles E. Young Dr. E.
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
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Date:
November 17, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Event Category:

Organizer

QCBio

Venue

Boyer 159
611 Charles E. Young Dr. E.
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
+ Google Map
View Venue Website