'Somali autism': a phenotype?

" Results lend support to previous studies that found higher rates of ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]   intellectual disability in chi...

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Rare genetic condition manifesting as autism and its management

" We report the case of a young boy with nonverbal autism and intellectual disability , with a rare de novo 1q21.3 microdeletion. ...

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Another double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D in autism. But...

The findings reported by Conor Kerley and colleagues [1] continue a theme in autism research circles of ' one study reporting one thing...

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Everything is genetic, isn't it?

T here is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relative...

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Spooky action at a (short) distance

E ntanglement in physics is about action that seems to transfer some sort of 'information' across distances at speeds faster than th...

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The GWAS hoax....or was it a hoax? Is it a hoax?

A long time ago, in 2000, in Nature Genetics , Joe Terwilliger and I critiqued the idea then being pushed by the powers-that-be, that the g...

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Vitamin D genes and autism

" Vitamin D deficiency is a putative environmental risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). " And... " We provide str...

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