Kanner’s Eleven Families
The term, Broader Autism Phenotype (BAP), is not a diagnosis. Instead, it’s used to refer to sub-diagnostic traits of autism in family members of those with the condition. Symptoms can […]
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Is a Lack of Consanguinity Uncovering the Hidden Autism in Our Genes?
Although it’s a difficult topic to study, because the human species has experienced a number of population bottlenecks over time it’s assumed that rates of consanguinous (close kinship) marriage or […]
Tweny-three Chromosome Pairs? Try 1,000!
Every once in awhile, maybe once in a blue moon, you may read something that’s so left-field, so alien that it literally changes your fundamental concepts. For me that happened […]
Links between the Metabolic Syndrome, the Immune System, and Autism
Last weekend I attended a Think Tank sponsored by the Autism Research Institute. In attendance were Judy van de Water and Paul Ashwood from the MIND Institute, reporting on some […]
Our Obsession with the Synapse in Autism – Is It Really that Simple?
Ever since synaptic gene mutations were discovered in autism, the scientific world has been obsessed [1, 2]. Interestingly, however, these synapse-specific genes make up only a small minority of autism […]
Our latest publication: High-risk genes for autism function in the nucleus and regulate gene expression
Over the last year and a half, I’ve been studying rare forms of intellectual disability (ID) that have single-gene (monogenic) origins using various bioinformatics approaches. My primary interest was to […]
Nonrandom Mating and its Relationship with Autism, ADHD, and Schizophrenia
When choosing romantic partners, we’re all familiar with the phrase “like attracts like”. Ironically, however, this phenomenon is all too often overlooked in modern genetics studies. In a recent study […]
First Trimester Ischemia as a Risk for Autism?
In the 1950s, the company, Chemie Gruenenthal, marketed a drug intended for the treatment of respiratory infections. Soon, however, they realized it worked as an effective sedative and, more importantly […]
More Links between the “Metabolic Syndrome” and Autism
Metabolic Syndrome (MBS) involves a combination of medical conditions that lend towards cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These include abdominal obesity, hypertension (elevated blood pressure), hypercholesterolemia (high HDL cholesterol and triglycerides), […]
Mutation Patterns in Simplex Cases of Autism
There’s been a lot of study of copy number variants (CNV) in autism over the last decade or so. Far from beating a dead horse, a recent publication in Neuron […]
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