Genetics and Autism
Gene variants in autism linked to brain development
Published in Drug Week, March 18th, 2011
2011 MAR 18 -- New research on the genomics of autism confirms that the genetic roots of the disorder are highly complicated, but that common biological themes underlie this complexity. In the current study, researchers have implicated several new candidate genes and genomic variants as contributors to autism, and conclude that many more remain to be discovered. While the gene alterations are individually very rare, they mostly appear to disrupt genes that play important functional roles in brain development and nerve signaling.
While an association between genomic variants in certain nervous system processes and autism has been hypothesized in the past,...
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Source: Drug Week (2011-03-18)
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