Feb. 10 -- MONDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Multiple, interacting genetic risk factors may influence the severity of autism, a new study suggests. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers ...

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

A model of a DNA molecule is displayed in the New York office of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in 1962. (Anthony Camerano / Associated Press) Earlier this year, Health and Human ...

Scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Las Vegas Nevada (UNLV) have uncovered a genetic link between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a rare genetic condition ...

Scientists look to DNA from Middle Eastern families to solve the autism mystery. July 10, 2008— -- WASHINGTON (AP) - Harvard researchers have discovered half adozen new genes involved in autism ...

Two groundbreaking studies on autism were published yesterday in the journal Cell. The first study was from a team of neuroscientists at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the other study ...

Individuals with the neurodevelopmental disorder Williams syndrome have a gregarious “cocktail party” personality, while those with the opposite genetic alteration, in contrast, tend to have autistic ...

“…the precipitating factor in infantile autism is the parent’s wish that his child should not exist.” That may sound outrageous, but when the famous child ...

Genes located in a large chromosomal aberration associated with autism interact with each other to modulate the variable symptoms of the disease, according to new research. A collaborative team led by ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism’s cause — a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades — ...