Siblings with autism often have DNA mutations that are very different from each other, which suggests that autism is often genetic happenstance, according to a new study. An analysis of the DNA of 170 ...

Autism spectrum disorder is complex; it presents differently in different patients, and the causes are still unclear, even though hundreds of small changes in gene sequences have been linked to an ...

Researchers now have thousands of new DNA mutations to study as possible causes of autism, thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered technique described in a study published May 27 in Nature ...

Firestein’s interest in autism research began long before she entered a laboratory. Raised in New York, she attended ...

Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...

Organoids have helped create a comprehensive map showing how eight different genetic mutations associated with autism spectrum disorder affect early brain development. This work provides new insights ...

Figure 3. Docking of ADNP_Glu931Glyfs12 to the PTB protein. (A) The results of docking ADNP_Glu931Glyfs12 (light orange) to the PTB protein (PDB code 3DXC, navy blue) in the 934-941 amino acid region ...

(StudyFinds.org) – Autism’s cause is not something science has completely figured out yet. Studies have discovered several different links which appear to play a role in children developing the ...

A new study has revealed an unexpected link between autism and a rare genetic disorder, shedding new light on the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Scientists have discovered that people with ...