Autistic Mice

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29 Feb 2012, 10:44 pm

So I was told that, scientist are using mouse models to study autism. And I thought this was pretty cool, so I looked it up on google and I found a couple article. The mice were genetically engineered to lack a gene associated with autism. Then they displayed much similar autistic traits. This is really cool. More proof to autism being genetically linked?

Anybody else heard of this?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... eated.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 122749.htm

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03 Mar 2012, 3:57 pm

It's a nice way of studying autism's cause.

What is now to be questioned is its survival value. It works well in creatures that aren't very social it seems.

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04 Mar 2012, 9:52 pm

Ai_Ling wrote:

Thanks!

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