My laboratory seeks to identify genetic factors for language impairments.  As animal models of language development are of limited utility, we examine DNA from families segregating specific language impairment or autism as part of two separate but interacting projects.  These projects are heavily interdisciplinary, utilizing a wide range of molecular and computational methods developed in-house and though close collaborations with experts in statistics and computer science.  We hope that use of genetics will allow for identification of at-risk children to promote early intervention.

Assistant Professor, Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine (formerly known at the Center for Quantitative and Computational Biology, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular and Human Genetics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University

Assistant Professor, Center for Quantitative and Computational Biology, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

My laboratory seeks to identify genetic factors for language impairments.  As animal models of language development are of limited utility, we examine DNA from families segregating specific language impairment or autism as part of two separate but interacting projects.  These projects are heavily interdisciplinary, utilizing a wide range of molecular and computational methods developed in-house and through close collaborations with experts in statistics and computer science.  We hope that use of genetics will allow for identification of at-risk children to promote early intervention.

Wassink TH, Vieland VJ, Sheffield VC, Bartlett CW, Goedken R, Childress D, Piven J (in press).  Posterior probability of linkage analysis of autism dataset identifies linkage to chromosome 16.  Psychiatric Genet