Sentences with phrase «unaffected children of the families»
The gene was revealed only in the affected children, but not in the unaffected children of the families studied.
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About 3,100 of the participants are from simplex families, with a single child affected by autism but unaffected parents and siblings; the remaining are from multiplex families, which have two or more affected siblings.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A clinically extensive and mathematically powerful study of 1000 families with one autistic child and one unaffected sibling has validated a controversial theory of autism's complex genetic causation.
Using a newly assembled sample population called the Simons Simplex Collection which included about 1000 families, consisting of both birth parents and in most cases two children, one with ASD and the other unaffected, Wigler and colleagues saw the earlier - observed effect, only «this time on a much larger scale.»