
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Genetic Architecture of Cancer
We know there are at least many hundred, and some would say even more than a thousand, genetic losi, places on the chromosome that contribute towards the risk of autism. The problem with that is that a atism therefore becomes very much like cancer. That's pretty much what the genetic architecture of canceris. Even though two people have thyroid cancer, if you read the dna in their tumor, there they'll be diff they'll be quite different one another. We're starting to work this out. I don't think it's insoluble, but, but it means that, i how are you going to do a study when, if you take one child with autism, there's
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