Re:Jim Simons: The Numbers King
by nyc111 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:29AM
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I wish he invested in studying the microbiome. It is a relatively new field and requires computational powers. From the article, if I understand correctly, they study autism only in the context of the DNA. But it is now known that the disorders in the gut microbiome is related to autism.
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The gut microbiome is a main focus of the Systems Biology group in the Center for Computational Biology.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computa...
Great. I found this research https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2017/09/26/microbiome-proje...
But do they study microbiome in relation to autism? I could not find any such research.
Do you have some links for that and/or could you elaborate? Sounds like a fascinating connection.
These are the first two in google results:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564498/
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
I have more references at home but cannot reach them now. There is a also a doctor here in Turkey who tried fecal transplant on an autistic kid. She was optimistic about the results but reluctant to publish just for one patient. This was months ago. I don't know the status now.