News 2010 and earlier
2010
- December 22, 2010
Dalila Pinto: From CNVs to pathways
- October 19, 2010
CNVs in The Walrus
- September 30, 2010
Toronto database for genomic medicine extends global reach
- September 15, 2010
Link to autism in boys found in missing DNA
- September 15, 2010
Mutation found in some autistic boys
- August 11, 2010
TCAG Statistical Analysis Facility supports osteosarcoma cancer gene discovery (Journal of Clinical Investigation)
- July 15, 2010
Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders (Nature)
- June 9, 2010
New genetic findings expected to accelerate autism testing and development of treatments (Video)
- June 9, 2010
Researchers find genes related to autism (USA Today)
- June 9, 2010
Autism linked to rare gene changes (CBC News)
- May 11, 2010
BioArray News Q&A with Steve Scherer on the direction of genomic medicine …
- April 29, 2010
SickKids wins $8.8M grant for autism genomics | Download Bioarray News
- April 23, 2010
TCAG director profiled as part of Canada AM's week long look at autism (Throng)
- April 8, 2010
Integrative research at
TCAG [Video]
- April 1, 2010
MaRS is lighting it up blue for autism
- March 29, 2010
The Database of Genomic Variants updated with new content
- March 9, 2010
Charles Lee and Steve Scherer highlight the clinical importance of copy number variation.
2009
- December 8, 2009
Steve Scherer involved in one of most important medical research advances made over the century's first decade. (Toronto Star)
- Novemeber 5, 2009
TCAG scientists publish a new statistical method to integrate microarray data sets
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/3/106/abstract
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcsystbiol/
- October 2009
Two leading researchers discuss the value of
oddball data (Harvard Business)
- July 9, 2009
TCAG founders remembered for cystic fibrosis discovery
- July 7, 2009
TCAG director develops new test for detecting differential expression in microarray data (Science Direct)
- June 22, 2009
CFI awards TCAG continued funding as a leading human genome centre
- May 11, 2009
Moving Target: Copy number variation and disease (Genome Web)
- May 5, 2009
TCAG releases second generation CNV map
- April 23, 2009
Genomic
variation in a global village: 2008 Human Genome Variation Meeting report
- March 23, 2009
The Database of Genomic Variants has been updated
- March 8, 2009
TCAG supports brain cancer gene discovery
- February 11, 2009
OGI funds technology seeding project
at TCAG
- February 2, 2009
TCAG Directors editorial in Genome Medicine (Genome Medicine)
- January 6, 2009
Cheryl Croucher, award winning broadcaster, interviews Steve Scherer about CNV link to autism (Innovation Anthology)
2008
- November 17, 2008
Illumina/TCAG
launch a new genome-wide genotyping chip (illumina.com)
- October 15 - 17, 2008
Personalized medicine: are we ready?
- September 29, 2008
Database of Genomic Variants makes the cover of Genetics in Medicine
- September 18, 2008
TCAG director shares his advice on performing array comparative genomic hybridization
- September 9, 2008
TCAG researchers show an increase in CNV's in cancer prone individuals
- September 2008
TCAG student Andrew Carson is featured in an article on how to make a perfect poster in the NCIC Sept. e-newsletter
Written by: Christine Harminc, Canadian Cancer Society, September 2008.
- August 4, 2008
SickKids scientists demonstrate link between DNA copy number changes and cancer risk
- April 30, 2008
TCAG scientist receives Ontario Premier's Summit Award
- April 3, 2008
TCAG scientists coauthor an article on the ethical issues surrounding whole-genome analyses
- March 20, 2008
International partnership to produce 'gold standard' gene copy reference of the human genome
- February 26, 2008
Illumina's microRNA whole-genome expression profiling service for both human and mouse samples
- Jan 17, 2008
TCAG scientists find frequent structural changes of chromosomes in autism
- Jan 8 2008
TCAG researcher involved in research on kidney failure in diabetes
- Jan 8 2008
TCAG research highlighted in New York Times
2007
- Dec 14, 2007
Lars Feuk celebrated as one of Genome Technology's young stars of science
- Nov 6, 2007
TCAG scientist Steve Scherer and CNV featured in HHMI bulletin
- Oct 23, 2007
TCAG research article highlighted in Heredity (www.nature.com)
- Sept 4, 2007
TCAG scientists help decode the first full human diploid genome for an individual
- July 24, 2007
Congratulations to Ben Kwan who won first prize at The Hospital for Sick Children's Annual Summer Student Symposium. more …
- July 10, 2007
TCAG, as part of an international consortium to catalogue all common copy number variants
- April 17, 2007
Affymetrix launches program to advance cancer research
- March 22, 2007
Hospital a hotbed for breakthroughs
- March 20, 2007
TCAG supports cancer gene sequencing
- March 20, 2007
Combimatrix Molecular diagnostics to utilize autism probe content from a partnership with TCAG
- Feb 19, 2007
New genetic link to autism (Toronto Star)
- Feb. 18, 2007
Canadian scientists lead international autism genome discoveries
- Feb 12, 2007
TCAG supports CNV gene expression study in /Science/ (Sanger Institute)
- Jan 24, 2007
New lower pricing on oligos!
2006
2005
2004
- November 1 2004
TCAG launches the 'Autism Chromosome Rearrangement Database', first described in Cur.Gen. (www.igneta.com)
- August 1 2004
TCAG supports discovery of LCVs (Nature Genetics) and launches 'Database of Genomic Variants'
- August 6, 2004
Large-Scale Differences Discovered in DNA of Healthy People (Genome News Network www.genomenewsnetwork.org)
- August 2, 2004
DNA variations surprise researchers (Innovations Report - www.innovations-report.com)
- April 1, 2004
Surprising discovery reveals gains or losses of large segments of DNA in healthy people
- March 22, 2004
Researchers identify a new form of disease gene associated with Rett syndrome
- March 22, 2004
Researchers discover an alternate form for the disease gene associated with Rett syndrome (www.eurekalert.org)
- March 22, 2004
Researchers identify a new form of disease gene associated with Rett syndrome (www.eurekalert.org)
- March 21, 2004
Researchers discover novel form of the Rett Syndrome protein (www.eurekalert.org)
- February 26, 2004
TCAG Director wins Steacie Prize for contributions to human genomics
- February 25, 2004
Scherer wins Steacie Prize: Geneticist honoured for outstanding scientific research
2003
- October 30, 2003
Walking the Jungles and Deserts of Chromosome 7
- September 7, 2003
SickKids scientists identify gene for most severe form of adolescent epilepsy
- July 11, 2003
Chromosome 7 Sequenced-Again
- July 9 2003
TCAG publishes duplication map of the mouse genome
- July 9, 2003
Mapping an 'Unlucky' Chromosome
- June 12 2003
TCAG publishes DNA sequence annotation algorithm (Bioinformatics)
- May 15 2003
TCAG supports SARS research in Canada and Hong Kong (N Engl J Med.)
- May 12, 2003
Building Canada's Future in the Knowledge-Based Economy
- April 18, 2003
Genomics Meets Medicine on New Gene Map
- April 10, 2003
DNA sequence of chromosome 7 decoded - Canadian-led project generates database with medical annotation available to the public
- April 10, 2003
TCAG publishes the 'DNA Sequence and Biology of Human Chromosome 7'
- March 17, 2003
TCAG publishes duplication map of the human genome
- February 13, 2003
TCAG scientists involved in identifying gene causing acute megakaryoblastic leukemia of Down syndrome (Blood)
- February 13, 2003
SickKids researchers identify genetic events leading to leukemia in Down syndrome children
- January 13, 2003
New Genome Research Centre in Hong Kong to Collaborate with Leading Canadian Genomics Centre
2002
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