Genes from Middle East families yield autism clues

[TZ]

- Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections.

The findings also may help explain why intense education programs do help some autistic children - because certain genes that respond to experience weren't missing, they were just stuck in the "off" position.

"The circuits are there but you have to give it an extra push," said Dr. Gary Goldstein of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, which wasn't involved in the gene hunt but is well-known for its autism behavioral therapy.
The genetics suggest that "what we're doing makes sense when we work with these little kids - and work and work and work - and suddenly get through," he said.

http://news.aol.com/health/story/ar/_a/genes-from-middle-east-families-yield/n20080710140109990030
Autism is a very complex disease it seems..linked to multiple genes explains whey it is expressed so differently in individuals

[Orrex]

1. So you're saying that middle eastern genes have mercury in them?

Fascinating!

K/R

[TZ]

2. Oh no

They are terrarist genes! We have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here.....:rofl:

[varkam]

6. And other toxins I'm sure. eom

[lightningandsnow]

3. Thank you for posting this.

And, yeah, because this forum is like that:

Cue ableist remarks in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

[varkam]

7. Ableist?

Sorry, I'm just not familiar with that term.

[Book Lover]

8. As a term, it is parallel to sexist or racist

insofar as it describes the idea that persons with disabilities are undesirable per se. This is a very simple explanation, though. I hate to say it, but the wiki article presents the idea fairly and I recommend it.

[varkam]

9. Thank you for that.

Learn something new every day.

:hi:

[Book Lover]

4. This is a very encouraging article

I posted a link to it earlier in a *certain* thread. Of course the response was crickets.

[xchrom]

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