Re:Autism and Evolution
by gertef on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:22PM
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If autism is caused by an individual mutation (not alredy present in the parent genome) it would be amazing that the mutation is so common, but not currently of a known form (like trisomy).
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Re:Autism and Evolution
by roywiggins on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:58PM
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It could be that there are many genes and many mutations possible to cause it, which means two people with autism would almost certainly not share the same mutation. This would make it quite difficult to work out what the mutations are.
(There is one mutation that causes something like autism, fragile-X)