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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by PeterisP on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:09PM (#20588845)
Not necessarily, for example, the very thing in the article title - high levels of oestrogens in the womb - is about hormone levels not caused by expression of your genes but influenced by outside environment.
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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by taneq on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:49PM (#20589097)
An outside environment which shares ~50% of your genes, though.
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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by blaser-waffle on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:15AM (#20592669)
Nothing genetic about lead in the air or in paint, or hormones in your beef. Nothing genetic about alcohol or cigarette exposure in the womb. Or random thugs terrifying your parents, putting your pregnant mom through waves of fight-or-flight hormone spikes.
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