SFARI, is anyone else volunteering?

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I just thought I would start a thread to find out if any other families are volunteering for this study and their thoughts. Our individual testing is being done through the Baylor College of Medicine at Texas Children's Hospital. We were referred by a few clinians on the thoroughness of the TCH team.

Our son's diagnosis of Autism came at the age of 3.5 years in 2006 and at that time he received at least four other diagnoses. The genetic testing that was done at that time was only capable of determining 150 genetic imbalances. Current tests are capable of 180,000 imbalances just three years later. That's a good indication of the amount of progress that has been made in genome research. Also, a separate study is being conducted through the same channel by the geneticist involved as a result of our conversation and his curiosity. His results for my son are now complete and now we're pursuing further testing of my wife and I.

The separate results for the "Simons Simplex Collection" will take about 5 weeks longer and they also involved bloodwork from my wife and I.

Anyway, anyone else?

I haven't heard about it but I wish you luck with the process.

Here is the mission I just robbed from the website: "The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of autism and related developmental disorders. SFARI explores neuroscience from multiple directions, including molecular, cellular, systems, immunological, cognitive, behavioral, genetic, theoretical and computational perspectives."

Thanks for you well wishes!