http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/20068 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/chromosomal-abnormality-linked-autism-disorders <!--paging_filter--><p>Researchers have fitted another piece into the complex genetic puzzle that is autism, finding DNA deletions and duplications on a specific chromosome that they say explains one to two percent of the 1.5 million cases of autism and related disorders in the United States today.</p><p>The genetic changes were discovered in <a title="" href="http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/">DNA</a> scans of more than 3,000 people, both with and without autism spectrum disorder, a category of developmental disability that includes <a title="" href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm">autism disorder</a>, Asperger’s syndrome, and a broad category called “pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.”</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/chromosomal-abnormality-linked-autism-disorders">read more</a></p> Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:04:29 -0500 404132862 20069 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu