Health And General Life Care: [AlternativeAnswers] Autism and genetics

[AlternativeAnswers] Autism and genetics

Friday, 18 January 2008

0 comments

Stephen Scherer, Ph.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children, and
colleagues found that structural variation of genetic material is
widespread among those with autism.

The variations include gains and losses of genetic material, as well
as translocations and inversions, they reported in the February issue
of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

All told, Dr. Scherer and colleagues identified 13 genetic regions
with overlapping or recurrent chromosomal changes in 427 unrelated
people with autism that were not seen in healthy controls.

The "most compelling result" was a copy number variation on
chromosome 16 that was seen in 1% of the autism patients but not in
healthy controls, the researchers said.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/Autism/dh/8013

__._,_.___

Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic

*********************************************
Peacefulmind.com Sponsors Alternative Answers-

HEALING NATURALLY- Learn preventative and curative measure to take for many ailments at:

http://www.peacefulmind.com/ailments.htm
____________________________________________

-To INVITE A FRIEND to our healing community, copy and paste this address in an email to them:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlternativeAnswers/subs_invite

___________________________________________
To ADD A LINK, RESOURCE, OR WEBSITE to Alternative Answers please Go to:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlternativeAnswers/links

_____________________________________________
Community email addresses:
Post message: AlternativeAnswers@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: AlternativeAnswers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: AlternativeAnswers-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
List owner: AlternativeAnswers-owner@yahoogroups.com
_________________________________________
Shortcut URL to this page:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlternativeAnswers

MARKETPLACE

Earn your degree in as few as 2 years - Advance your career with an AS, BS, MS degree - College-Finder.net.