Genetic Link for Autism?

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I have strongly felt that there was a genetic link for autism but the focus on immunizations seemed to take the focus off of this kind of research. Today, U.S. News and World Report is reporting that scientists have found that an error on a gene may be related to autism.

Scientists studied the DNA of families of those with autism, those with autism and then a control group of people without autism. They found a significant difference.

In our family alone we have two with autism and one with ADHD. My husband is suspected of having had PDD-NOS as a child. We have a niece on the autism spectrum as well. I have no doubt that there is a genetic link--the question we face now is what are we going to do about it?

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