IN his original description of infantile autism, Kanner suggested an “inborn defect”, because
symptoms were often present from early infancy. Despite the rarity of a family history of …

Autism: highly heritable but not inherited | Nature Medicine Skip to main content Thank you for
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© 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved been variously linked to epilepsy,
digestive problems, immune or hormonal dysfunction, mitochondrial function and more. The …

The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and
rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is genetically heterogeneous, with most ASD-associated
variants accounting for very few cases. Michael Snyder and colleagues used a systems …

Although autism is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, attempts to identify
specific susceptibility genes have thus far met with limited success. Genome-wide …

We argue that there will be no single (genetic or cognitive) cause for the diverse symptoms
defining autism. We present recent evidence of behavioral fractionation of social impairment …

Autism is a multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder affecting more males than females;
consequently, under a multifactorial genetic hypothesis, females are affected only when they …

Although it is well established that family members resemble each other in intelligence1, the
extent to which this results from either shared genes or a shared environment remains …

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