IHDD

UW Medicine genome experts made significant scientific contributions to a National Institutes of Health Human Genome Research Institute reference collection that better represents the genetic [...]

The first annual Research Day will showcase the IHDD's research and highlight its collaborations with other departments and organizations at the UW and beyond.

The genotypic and phenotypic complexity related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is extraordinary. Even mutations in single genes strongly associated with ASD...

One of the most common brain disorders, epilepsy affects around 1% of the United States population: close to 3 million adults and more than 450,000 children. It was first mentioned in ancient [...]

Alfred Hitchcock may have taken inspiration for his film The Birds from an episode of shellfish poisoning. To back up a bit, after hundreds of seabirds slammed into houses, cars, and people in a [...]

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) are a severe type of epilepsy characterized by multiple unprovoked seizures that can begin from the time of in utero...