New Autism Genes Discovered

For Immediate Release
June 09, 2010

The Autism Genome Project, an international consortium of autism researchers, today announced results of an intensive genetics study. In addition to identifying a number of new autism susceptibility genes, they found individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) tend to have more submicroscopic insertions or deletions -- called copy number variations (CNVs) -- in their genome than other people. Some of these are inherited, while others arise for the first time in the person with ASD.

Read a summary by Autism Speaks.

Read the scientific article.