Welcome to the Lab of Lauren A. Weiss, PhD
UCSF Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Human Genetics, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Genetics of Autism Research Program
Our long term goals are to use genetic tools to improve understanding, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of autism and related traits. The immediate goals of our research are to better understand complex genetic mechanisms in autism. We are working to identify autism susceptibility loci and their action by conducting studies designed to investigate quantitative trait loci, parental genetic risk factors, and genetic interaction effects such as: gene x gene, gene x environment and gene x sex.