Autism Gene Browser

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There are many foundations for rare disease and each try to accomplish development of drug’s for their rare disease. There are many steps involved in drug development and a critical feature is to make the science understandable and accessible so that scientists can understand the disease but also the possibility of coming up with a drug to help. This is especially difficult with autism since it is a polygenic disorder that will need more effort

The Autism research community does it exceptionally well. TThe SFARI GENE browser enables searching for specific genetic defects, mouse model availability and tools.

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Take an example how well this data has been sorted and annotated

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The big Parkinson’s disease groups such as American Parkinsons Disease association, Davis Phinney foundation for Parkinsons, Michael J Fox Foundation and Parkinsons Foundation have much to learn from this wonderful tool of accessible data that is easy to browse.

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