There have been two genes associated with autistic spectrum disorders in a new study of 661 families. Researchers studied four candidate genes in families from the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. The proteins encoded by these two genes have been implicated in brian development, which is often impaired in autistic individuals. The study covered four brian enriched leucine-rich repeat candidates and taken together, there is converging evidence that common genetic variants in LRRTM3 and LRRN3 confer susceptibility to ASD.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/03/26/autism_susceptibility_genes_identified.html
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