posted 6/9/2011
Autism Result of Scores of Genetic Mutations, Researchers Say
Hundreds of spontaneous gene mutations may be responsible for the development of autism in families without a history of the disorder. In three studies published Thursday in the journal Neuron, researchers from Yale University, Columbia University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York looked at gene analyses from over 1,000 families where one child had an autism diagnosis but the parents and the child's siblings did not.
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