Wednesday, April 29, 2009

DNA and Autism

We had speculated while researching for our book (and reading countless online/print material), that there had to be a connection in how the affect of ‘touched and genetically/environmentally altered/mutated’ cells in the brain would affect a person. Well, researchers have now come up with a new report that shows most affected with autism that they examined have a genetic variation in a portion of their DNA that affects the way brain cells connect with one another.

Now this is a big deal because in this report they state their research showed 65% of the people they studied had this DNA variation, compared to the minute percentage in previous studies. This study was conducted by a team led by Hakon Hakonarson and Gerard Schellenberg.

Read Press Release

3 comments:

Chun Wong said...

Thanks for that link, sounds like an interesting report.

Dr Chun Wong
www.newautismcure.com/blog

Chun Wong said...

Nothing happens when I click "Read Press Release", what's the URL? Thanks.

Lea Schizas - Author/Editor said...

Try it again. I fixed the broken link with an updated report.