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Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world 		   
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Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world
From The Times
August 27, 2007
Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world
Parents and scientists are hoping that a new detailed analysis based on human genome will bring a big breakthrough within a year
Mark Henderson, Science Editor

It has become one of the most controversial and feared medical diagnoses of modern times. Autism was barely spoken of a generation ago but it has been forced into public consciousness by the row over the MMR vaccine and the growing realisation that it is much more common than doctors had imagined...........

Their concerns have also been fed by reports of an autism epidemic. A disorder that was once rare has become alarmingly common, with as many as one in 100 children now thought to be affected in some way.

Even if much of this is explained by better diagnosis, the condition retains a brutal mystery. What is it that makes children who seem normal at birth regress suddenly a year or two into life? Now a change in science’s ability to decipher how genes influence health is promising to pin down what autism owes to inheritance.

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08/27/2007by: shannonj
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