A study carried out by the Laboratoire Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université), in collaboration with clinicians from Marseilles Public Hospitals (AP - HM) and scientists from the Salk Institute in San Diego (US), has revealed a new gene that plays a crucial role during early development in humans and whose under - expression may induce
certain autistic traits.
Not exact matches
However, this is the first study to suggest those who have not been diagnosed with autism but had
certain traits typical of
autistic people were also more at risk of attempting suicide.
Recognizing
certain traits, they took him for screening at 18 months and found that Jackson was also
autistic.
Basically what this means is that individuals with
autistic traits are unable to properly cycle
certain amino acids throughout the nervous system.