Comments on: Mutatis Mutandis: Genetic Mutations and Being at High Risk

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:03:18 +0000

Hi,

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Andrew Lehman

By: Rare Genetic Mutations and Schizophrenia

Rare Genetic Mutations and Schizophrenia — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:18:27 +0000

[...] as noted in PsychPort.com. Many of the DNA variants found in the study are, like those in an autism study under Michael Wigler, another Cold Spring geneticist, occur [...]

By: A Unified Theory of Autism

A Unified Theory of Autism — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:05:22 +0000

[...] that of researchers using classical Mendelian genetics; last year he published two articles about spontaneous mutation and autism. A March 2007 paper in Science suggested that large genetic events—”copy number [...]

By: Robbing from Autism to Give to Herself?

Robbing from Autism to Give to Herself? — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:37 +0000

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del.icio.us vox links 6 — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:18:40 +0000

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By: Whether it’s Britney or Lindsay, Let’s Once Again Blame Mothers

Whether it’s Britney or Lindsay, Let’s Once Again Blame Mothers — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:42:15 +0000

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By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:48:37 +0000

Caroline L—-the word autism definitely seems to have been overly endowed with many and multiple meaning!

I hope we can all find some common ground, despite this.

best wishes—

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:46:34 +0000

Eye on DNA has a recent post on Environment, Epigenetics, and DNA.

By: joe mele

joe mele — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:12:44 +0000

Epigenetics a bit off topic. I saw this
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/
It talks about it. If there is truth to this then genes can turned on or off. While this does no the gluten free diet is proved. It does raise interesting possibilities about amelioration of the least desirable charateristics.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:56:26 +0000

Joe Mele accurately states that autism might be polygenic, the interactions of more than one gene that ’cause’ autism. Excluding genetic mental retardation syndromes (Tuberous Sclerosis, Fragile X) there is still not one autism specific gene that has been found. The polygenic theory remains unproven. Michael Rutter, perhaps the leading authority on autism and the child psychiatrist who originally developed the concept of the broad autism phenotype seems to opening up the door to gene-environment interactions as likely involved in at least part of autism etiology. A few years ago he actually referred to the scientists who deeply believe that autism is a genetic only condition as ‘genetic evangelists’.