13,000 join online autism registry(very sad)

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How sad that these people do not know that by supporting this

registry they are helping provide ammunition that will be used

against kids filing claims in the VICP.

Please note below... Zimmerman of the Kennedy Krieger

Institute. Remember folks these are the people asking us to sign our

kids up for their guinea pig list on the new IAN site

The respondent has now listed their expert witnesses. They are:

Brent, M.D., Ph.D., Physician and Clinical Professor of

Medicine, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of

Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Edwin H. Cook, Jr., M.D., Director, Laboratory of Developmental

Neuroscience and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Institute for

Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois

at Chicago.

Fombonne, M.D., Professor and Head of the Division of Child

Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal Children's Hospital.

S. Fujinami, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Division of Cell

Biology and Immunology and Adjunct Professor, Department of

Pathology, University of Utah.

D. Gershon, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of

Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University.

Diane E. , M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, s Hopkins Bloomberg School

of Public Health.

B. Hanauer, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Clinical

Pharmacology and Chief, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and

Nutrition, University of Chicago Medical Center.

T. McCusker, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department

of Pediatrics and Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Montreal

Children's Hospital.

J. Ward, M.D., M.Sc., Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases,

McGill University Health Center.

W. Zimmerman, M.D., Pediatric Neurologist, Kennedy Krieger

Institute and Associate Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and

Pediatrics, s Hopkins University School of Medicine

Published: May 15, 2007 at 10:29 AM

13,000 join online autism registry

BALTIMORE, May 15 (UPI) -- The first U.S. online autism registry,

spearheaded by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, has registered 13,000

participants in one month.

The Interactive Autism Network has representation in all 50 states as

well as the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Northern na

Islands, Guam, Marshall Islands and Palau, who want to accelerate

autism research.

The database has diverse family registration including: six sets of

triplets, 37 sets of identical twins and 157 sets of fraternal twins,

according to Dr. Law, director of the Interactive Autism Network

at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.

" In one short month, IAN has become the country's largest pool of

autism data, " Law said in a statement. " The fact that IAN has already

become a vital resource for researchers, so early in its lifespan,

bodes extremely well for the potential of this project, and

ultimately, to the pursuit of answers in autism. "

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