Sentences with phrase «autism genes tend»
According to the study, the researchers» genetic analysis supports previous findings that people carrying autism genes tend to be intelligent, as well as findings about common traits between autism and high IQs — bigger brains that grow faster, better sensory and visual - spatial capabilities, and improved decision - making, to name a few.
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Sebat and colleagues discovered that spontaneous structural mutations occurred at a surprisingly high rate in individuals — 20 percent — and mutations in autism tended to disrupt genes.
«But genes tied to autism tend to affect specific functions, such as the connections between brain regions that are essential to many human - specific behaviors, like speech and language.»
The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.
Another striking asymmetry: when spontaneous CNVs contributing to autism were seen in girls, they tended to be much larger and hit many more genes — 15 genes per CNV on average for girls vs. only 2 for boys.