2021 Supported Findings

Harrop C, Bal V, Carpenter K, Halladay A

ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay co-authored this publication.

Zwaigenbaum L, Bishop S, Stone WL, Ibanez L, Halladay A, Goldman S, Kelly A, Klaiman C, Lai M, Miller M, Saulnier C, Siper P, Sohl K, Warren Z, Wetherby A

PubMed ID: 34553489

ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay co-authored this publication.

Breuss MW, Antaki D, George RD, Kleiber M, James KN, Ball LL, Hong O, Mitra I, Yang X, Wirth SA, Gu J, Garcia CAB, Gujral M, Brandler WM, Musaev D, Nguyen A, McEvoy-Venneri J, Knox R, Sticca E, Botello MCC, Fenner JU, Perez MC, Arranz M, Moffitt AB, Wang Z, Hervas A, Devinsky O, Gymrek M, Sebat J, Gleeson JG

PubMed ID: 31873310

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to William Brandler.

DiCriscio AS, Smith J, Troiani V

PubMed ID: 34326793

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Antoinette Sabatino DiCriscio

Foss-Feig JH, Guillory SB, Roach BJ, Velthorst E, Hamilton H, Bachman P, Belger A, Carrion R, Duncan E, Johannesen J, Light GA, Niznikiewicz M, Addington JM, Cadenhead KS, Cannon TD, Cornblatt B, McGlashan T, Perkins D, Seidman LJ, Stone WS, Tsuang M, Walker EF, Woods S, Bearden CE, Mathalon DH

PubMed ID: 33633603

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Jennifer Foss-Feig

Gordon A, Yoon SJ, Tran SS, Makinson CD, Park JY, Andersen J, Valencia AM, Horvath S, Xiao X, Huguenard JR, Pasca SP, Geschwind DH

PubMed ID: 33619405

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Aaron Gordon.

Kala S, Rolison MJ, Trevisan DA, Naples AJ, Pelphrey K, Ventola P, McPartland JC

PubMed ID: 34267691

ASF supported this research through an Undergraduate Summer Research Grant to Max Rolison.

Li SW, Williams ZM, Báez-Mendoza R

PubMed ID: 34916912

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to S. William Li.

Page NF, Gandal MJ, Estes ML, Cameron S, Ruth J, Parhami S, Ramaswami G, Murray K, Amaral DG, Van de Water JA, Schumann CM, Carter CS, Bauman MD, McAllister AK, Geschwind DH

PubMed ID: 33386132

ASF supported this research through an Undergraduate Summer Research Grant to Nicholas Page.

Park WJ, Schauder KB, Kwon OS, Bennetto L, Tadin D

PubMed ID: 34721951

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to Woon Ju Park.

Wilkinson CL, Nelson CA

PubMed ID: 33632320

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Carol Wilkinson.

Yurkovic JR, Lizandrelli G, Shaffer RC, Dominick KC, Pedapati EV, Erickson CA, Kennedy DP, Yu C

PubMed ID: 33574367

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to Julia Yurkovic.

Enriquez KD, Gupta AR, Hoffman EJ

PubMed ID: 34690830

ASF supported this research through an Undergraduate Summer Research Grant to Kristen Enriquez.

Floris DL, Filho JOA, Lai MC, Giavasis S, Oldehinkel M, Mennes M, Charman T, Tillmann J, Dumas G, Ecker C, Dell’Acqua F, Banaschewski T, Moessnang C, Baron-Cohen S, Durston S, Loth E, Murphy DGM, Buitelaar JK, Beckman CF, Milham MP, Di Martino A

PubMed ID: 33648569

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Dorothea Floris.

Barkoski JM, Philippat C, Tancredi D, Schmidt RJ, Ozonoff S, Barr DB, Elms W, Bennett DH, Hertz-Picciotto I

PubMed ID: 33220244

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to Jacqueline Barkoski.

Hannan AJ

PubMed ID: 33442037

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Ileena Mitra.

Lee DK, Li SW, Bounni F, Friedman G, Jamali M, Strahs L, Zeliger O, Gabrieli P, Stankovich MA, Demaree J, Williams ZM

PubMed ID: 34253921

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to S. William Li.

Marrus N, Turner TN, Forsen E, Bolster D, Marvin A, Whitehouse A, Klinger L, Gurnett CA, Constantino JN

PubMed ID: 34530736

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Natasha Marrus.

Mitra I, Huang B, Mousavi N, Ma N, Lamkin M, Yanicky R, Shleizer-Burko S, Lohmueller KE, Gymrek M

PubMed ID: 33442040

ASF supported this research through a Post-Doctoral Training Award to Ileena Mitra.

Volk HE, Ames JL, Chen A, Fallin MD, Hertz-Picciotto I, Halladay A, Hirtz D, Lavin A, Ritz B, Zoeller T, Swanson M

PubMed ID: 34972219

ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay co-authored this publication.

Wickstrom J, Farmer C, Green Snyder L, Mitz AR, Sanders SJ, Bishop S, Thurm A

PubMed ID: 34382689

ASF supported this research through an Autism Sisters Project grant to Somer Bishop.

Ashley K, Steinfeld MB, Young GS, Ozonoff S

PubMed ID: 31800528

ASF supported this research through a Baby Siblings Research Consortium grant to Gregory Young.

Havdahl A, Farmer C, Schjølberg S, Øyen A, Surén P, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Magnus P, Bresnahan M, Hornig M, Susser E, Lipkin WI, Lord C, Stoltengerg C, Thurm A, Bishop S

PubMed ID: 33369747

ASF supported this research through an Autism Sisters Project grant to Somer Bishop.

Carter Leno V, van Noordt S, Huberty S, Desjardins J, Webb SJ, Elsabbagh M, the BASIS team

PubMed ID: 33714056

ASF supported this research through funding to Sara Jane Webb.

Hawks ZW, Todorov A, Marrus N, Nishino T, Talovic M, Nevel MB, Girault JB, Davis S, Marek S, Seitzman BA, Eggebrecht AT, Elison J, Dager S, Mosconi MW, Tyschsen L, Snyder AZ, Botteron K, Estes A, Evans A, Gerig G, Hazlett HC, McKinstry RC, Pandey J, Schultz R, Styner M, Wolff JJ, Zwaigenbaum L, Markson L, Petersen SE, Constantino JN, White, DA, Piven J, Pruett J, the IBIS Network

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.12.004

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to Zoë Hawks.

Plate S, Yankowitz L, Resorla L, Swanson MR, Meera SS, Estes A, Marrus N, Cola M, Petrilla V, Faggen A, Pandey J, Paterson S, Pruett JR, Hazlett H, Dager S, St John T, Botteron K, Zwaigenbaum L, Piven J, Schultz RT, Parish-Morris J, IBIS Network

PubMed ID: 34708871

ASF supported this research through a Pre-Doctoral Training Award to Lisa Yankowitz.

Romeo RR, Choi B, Gabard-Durnam LJ, Wikinson CL, Levin AR, Rowe ML, Tager-Flusberg H, Nelson CA

PubMed ID: 34185234

ASF supported this research through Post-Doctoral Training Awards to Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Carol Wilkinson, and April Levin.

Peck FC, Gabard-Durnam LJ, Wilkinson CL, Bosl W, Tager-Flusberg H, Nelson CA

PubMed ID: 34847887

ASF supported this research through Post-Doctoral Training Awards to Laurel Gabard-Durnam and Carol Wilkinson.

Lord C, Charman T, Havdahl A, Carbone P, Anagnostou E, Boyd B, Carr T, de Vries PJ, Dissanayake C, Divan G, Freitag CM, Gotelli MM, Kasari C, Knapp M, Mundy P, Plank S, Scahill L, Servili C, Shattuck P, Simonoff E, Singer AT, Slonims V, Wang PP, Ysrraelit MC, Jellett R, Pickles A, Cusack J, Howlin P, Szatmari P, Holbrook A, Toolan C, McCauley JB

PubMed ID: 34883054

ASF President Alison Singer co-authored this publication.

Maye M, Boyd BA, Martinez-Pedraza F, Halladay A, Thurm A, Mandell DS

PubMed ID: 34529251

ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay co-authored this publication.

Thurm A, Halladay A, Mandell D, Maye M, Ethridge S, Farmer C

PubMed ID: 34716842

ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay co-authored this publication.

Azad GF, Minton KE, Mandell DS, Landa RJ

PubMed ID: 32653973

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Gazi Azad.

Chan DV, Klinger MR, Adkisson KA, Klinger LG

PubMed ID: 32939608

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Dara Chan.

Cox SK, Root JR, Gilley D

DOI: doi.org/10.1177/0162643421996327

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Jenny Root.

Fleury VP, Whalon K, Gilmore C, Wang X, Marks R

PubMed ID: 33464976

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Veronica Fleury.

La Buissonnière Ariza V, Scheider SC, Cepeda SL, Wood JJ, Kendall PC, Small BJ, Wood KS, Kerns C, Saxena K, Storch EA

PubMed ID: 33462740

ASF supported this research through an Accelerator Award to Connor Kerns.

The following studies co-authored by ASF grantees were published in 2020. The grants awarded by ASF to fund these studies may have been distributed in years prior to 2020.

COVID-19 Pandemic

Biology and Biomarkers

Gender differences

Genetics, gene/environment interactions, and utility of genetic findings

Improved Earlier Diagnosis

Underresearched groups

Treatments, interventions and services

Understanding comorbidities

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2021 Supported Findings

The following studies co-authored by ASF grantees were published in 2020. The grants awarded by ASF to fund these studies may have been distributed in years prior to 2020.

COVID-19 Pandemic

A lost generation? The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on early career ASD researchers

Rethinking autism spectrum disorder assessment for children during COVID ‐19 and beyond

Biology and Biomarkers

Autism risk in offspring can be assessed through quantification of male sperm mosaicism.

Comprehensive Assessment of Visual Perceptual Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Abnormally Large Baseline P300 Amplitude Is Associated with Conversion to Psychosis in Clinical High Risk Individuals with a History of Autism: A Pilot Study

Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions.

Brief Report: Preliminary Evidence of the N170 as a Biomarker of Response to Treatment in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Investigating the Neurobiology of Abnormal Social Behaviors.

Alterations in Retrotransposition, Synaptic Connectivity, and Myelination Implicated by Transcriptomic Changes Following Maternal Immune Activation in Nonhuman Primates.

Atypical Visual Motion-Prediction Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Increased aperiodic gamma power in young boys with Fragile X Syndrome is associated with better language ability.

Using head-mounted eye tracking to examine visual and manual exploration during naturalistic toy play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.

Gender differences

Signaling Pathways and Sex Differential Processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Towards robust and replicable sex differences in the intrinsic brain function of autism.

Genetics, gene/environment interactions, and utility of genetic findings

In utero pyrethroid pesticide exposure in relation to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental outcomes at 3 years in the MARBLES longitudinal cohort.

Repeat DNA expands our understanding of autism spectrum disorder.

Reduced sociability and social agency encoding in adult Shank3-mutant mice are restored through gene re-expression in real time.

Genetic counseling as preventive intervention: Toward individual specification of transgenerational autism risk.

Patterns of de novo tandem repeat mutations and their role in autism.

Considering Toxic Chemicals in the Etiology of Autism.

Patterns of delay in early gross motor and expressive language milestone attainment in probands with genetic conditions versus idiopathic ASD from SFARI registries.

Improved Earlier Diagnosis

Onset, Trajectory, and Pattern of Feeding Difficulties in Toddlers Later Diagnosed with Autism.

Age of walking and intellectual ability in autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A population‐based study.

12-Month peak alpha frequency is a correlate but not a longitudinal predictor of non-verbal cognitive abilities in infants at low and high risk for autism spectrum disorder.

A prospective evaluation of infant cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity in relation to behavioral development in autism.

Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years.

Parental Language Input Predicts Neuroscillatory Patterns Associated with Language Development in Toddlers at Risk of Autism.

Prediction of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis using nonlinear measures of language-related EEG at 6 and 12 months.

Underresearched groups

The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism.

Barriers, and Possible Solutions: Steps Towards Addressing Autism Researchers Under-Engagement with Racially, Ethnically, and Socioeconomically Diverse Communities.

Making Research Possible: Barriers and Solutions For Those With ASD and ID.

Treatments, interventions and services

Partners in School: An Implementation Strategy to Promote Alignment of Evidence-Based Practices Across Home and School for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Examining Environmental Predictors of Community Participation for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Let’s See That Again: Using Instructional Videos to Support Asynchronous Mathematical Problem Solving Instruction for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Building Comprehension Skills of Young Children With Autism One Storybook at a Time.

Understanding comorbidities

Predictors of Suicidal Thoughts in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Anxiety or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Unique Contribution of Externalizing Behaviors.

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