Sentences with phrase «scientists with autistic children»
Yet several doctors and scientists with autistic children admitted privately to using Yasko's services while being unwilling to go on the record to support her.
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El Kaliouby and Picard, an MIT professor and Affectiva's chief scientist, were developing a device that could respond to users» emotions, with the aim of helping autistic children communicate better.
The scientists then examined whether structural variants in these regions were associated with autism by examining the pattern of transmission from parents to their autistic and nonautistic children.
The study, conducted by a global consortium of 120 scientists, compared the genes of more than 1,000 autistic children with those of 1,300 youngsters unaffected by the disorder.
About the same time, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on families with one autistic child, reported that an estimated 10 to 30 percent of all reported cases of autism may be caused by new (or spontaneous) mutations in the number of copies of genes in children (that were not found in either parent).
De novo SNVs aren't particularly unusual — typically, a newborn will have about 70 such mutations across the whole genome that weren't inherited from either parent — but by comparing the exomes of many autistic children, scientists were able to identify the de novo mutations that were consistently associated with the disorder.