Today's issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, describes what might be a corner piece of the autism puzzle -- the identification and subsequent validation of a gene linked to the development of autism by three separate groups of scientists. An accompanying commentary by Dr. Dietrich Stephan, Director of the Neurogenomics Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, further explains the findings.
Researchers move 2 steps closer to understanding genetic underpinnings of autism
- EurekAlert
- 10. 1 2008 (06:00)