The Flickinger Legal Group, LLC would like to share this new article from Nature Neuroscience. We work hand in hand with The Make It Fit Foundation, which works to raise awareness for children with autism, and thus, find this article pertinent.
The study “involved the analysis of 5,205 whole genomes from families affected by autism – making it the largest whole genome study of autism to date. ‘It’s noteworthy that we’re still finding new autism genes, let alone 18 of them, after a decade of intense focus,” says study co-author Mathew Pletcher, Ph.D., Autism Speaks’ vice president for genomic discovery. ‘With each new gene discovery, we’re able to explain more cases of autism, each with its own set of behavioral effects and many with associated medical concerns’ . . . Increasingly, autism researchers are predicting that personalized, more effective treatments will come from understanding these common brain pathways.”
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-world-largest-autism-genome-database.html#jCp