Autism May Be Cause By 100 Genes

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17 Mar 2007, 3:28 am

This is some of the new research that's been done and they have a new theory (out of however many theories) that says that autism may be cause by over 100 genes, which doesn't surprise me (since autism is a mystery! lol) Anyways, here's the link if you'd like to read it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17630334/

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17 Mar 2007, 2:40 pm

Wow 100 Genes thats amazing. I've always have been amazed by the power of the human genome.

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17 Mar 2007, 5:19 pm

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17 Mar 2007, 5:40 pm

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Dud dun DUN! :lol:

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17 Mar 2007, 6:15 pm

Stuff the epidemic theory, it's f#$@ing stupid if you ask me.

I'm enlightened by the 100 genome thing. Makes them have to work their asses off to solve our enigma!

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17 Mar 2007, 8:47 pm

100 genes? Is that ALL? :wink:

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20 Mar 2007, 3:15 am

Ticker wrote:

100 genes? Is that ALL? :wink:

LOL Maybe in reality we have a million extra genes! THAT would be one heckava mystery...

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20 Mar 2007, 3:21 am

aspiegirl2 wrote:

Ticker wrote:

100 genes? Is that ALL? :wink:

LOL Maybe in reality we have a million extra genes! THAT would be one heckava mystery...

If it really is so then the Curbies would give up hope!

Wait a sec, with their tenacity they'd think that, with so many genes, the best idea is to KILL US!! !

AAAAAAAAHHHHH!! !! !! !! !! !! !

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20 Mar 2007, 11:51 am

i think autism is a factor of genes and enviroment. mostely genes though

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20 Mar 2007, 7:51 pm

KBABZ wrote:

aspiegirl2 wrote:

Ticker wrote:

100 genes? Is that ALL? :wink:

LOL Maybe in reality we have a million extra genes! THAT would be one heckava mystery...

If it really is so then the Curbies would give up hope!

Wait a sec, with their tenacity they'd think that, with so many genes, the best idea is to KILL US!! !

AAAAAAAAHHHHH!! !! !! !! !! !! !

*grabs katana* Come and get some, bastards!

That's what i'd do if they tried that....

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26 Mar 2007, 12:58 pm

KBABZ wrote:

I'm enlightened by the 100 genome thing. Makes them have to work their asses off to solve our enigma!

Chances are, the scientists working on this are Aspies themselves...I don't think I’ve ever met a decent NT scientist.

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27 Mar 2007, 12:52 pm

If it is 100 genes, it might be ten times as many differencies in regulatory parts of our genome. After all, autism seems to explain close to 70% of human variation. Take that away and we will all be pretty similar, uninventive and boring.

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