Team of Researchers Find Genes Causing Autism

Johns Hopkins-led team of researchers have identified a new genetic cause of the disease using a novel approach that focuses on rare families severely affected by autism. The gene sequences of autistic members of 13 such families were compared to the gene sequences of people from a public database. They found four potential culprit genes and focused on CTNND2, because it fell in a region of the genome known to be associated with another intellectual disability. ...

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