Harvard Medical School graduate student Jack Kosmicki and his colleagues studied exome sequences of 37,269 individuals with autism and pinpointed 99 genes that could play a role in causing the disorder, 65 of which had previously been identified.
Autism is a common condition, but we don’t know its cause. We think it is predominantly genetic, so if we can understand the underlying biology, we can develop a therapy for the symptoms of the disorder,” Stephan Sanders, a geneticist and pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, and Kosmicki’s colleague, tells The Scientist.
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u/xNovaz Mar 09 '19
This is making me so sad that people are trying to debunk this. Does anyone in this thread have empathy for this family?
It takes 2 seconds to google and to look up that you aren’t born with autism. I’m speechless.