
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Autism
We know that autism is a highly heritable disease. 90 per cent or so of the impact of the disease comes through the genetic architecture, from the gens im. And i'm not going to sort out how we define hiritability. Those are not related to these diseases. That means something else is causing and n now, ll, giso,. So as i'm listening to you say this, it seems that's a very reasonable hypothesis. But what's probably going on is that they don't all share the same types of mutation. They all have all different mutations all over the place, and it's a real mass.
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