Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts

Thursday, September 16, 2010

X-linked Gene Increases Autism Risk in Boys

SFARI.org, September 16, 2010.

A newly characterized gene on the X chromosome may be disrupted in up to one percent of people with autism, researchers reported in Science Translational Medicine.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Dramatic Regression Leads to Severe Autism, Study Finds

SFARI.org, August 3, 2010.

Toddlers who abruptly lose language, social or other developmental skills are more likely to have severe autism a few years later compared with children who have consistent delays from an early age. That's the conclusion of the largest study thus far of autism onset patterns, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Autism Marked by Copy Number Changes in Coding Regions

SFARI.org, June 11, 2010.

People with autism harbor more copy number variants (CNVs) — deletions or duplications of large chunks of DNA — compared with controls, but only in the protein-coding regions of the genome.

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