[Pharmboy]

Parents of autistic children: pleasue understand that it was NOTHING you did AND it was not vaccines or anything else in the envirnment.

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[TexasFreeper2009]

I have always wondered if Autism was just Neanderthal DNA exerting itself.

[hobbes1]

The study results are based on analysis of high-density genotyping data collected from 1,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 1,300 without ASD. These findings further support an emerging consensus within the scientific community that autism is caused in part by many "rare variants," or genetic changes found in less than one percent of the population.

Thats odd...Less than 1%? So...how do you get from there to 1 in 166 ?

[precisionshootist]

Increase of 57% in four years! I don’t see how they can rule out anything at this point. It’s scary and I feel for those affected.

[OldCorps]

btt’

[chris_bdba]

So now that they have identified the gene how far away are the tests to identify befire birth?

[Just mythoughts]

Parents of autistic children: pleasue understand that it was NOTHING you did AND it was not vaccines or anything else in the envirnment.

I do not know what causes the 'mutation' but I did not read this statement from the study. Actually nothing was stated WHEN this mutation occurs, and to be absolutely correct, seems to me you would have to be collecting data on the individual day one to see what the status of their genetic makeup is the second they take their first breath... And why does this mutation afflict more males than females?

I have a relative that has been diagnosed as having autism. Strange thing about the 'condition' was it just showed up around age 2-3. So I question when this mutation occurs and what causes it to take place.