Scientists eye an enzyme as target in fighting autism
By lisado
@lisado (1227)
United States
June 27, 2007 12:21pm CST
Did anyone else see this story?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070627/hl_afp/ushealthautism
They tested Zacky when he was around 3 years old and didn't find that Fragile X was the problem, but it would be nice if they found a way to help some of the kids that have been diagnosed.
Graphic borrow from
http://www.designbycher.com/autism_art.htm#Ribbons
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@lisado (1227)
• United States
28 Jun 07
My husband asked me how they knew that the mice had Autism. lol I guess he is used to seeing how Zacky's acts and some of the things he does and wanted to know how they could tell by looking at them. lol I told him they knew from DNA checks. We had been told that there are still a lot of markers that they don't know how to check for yet, but Zacky had been checked for Fragile X and they didn't find it. His Autism could still be a recessive gene that they just don't know how to check for yet. Amazing how far we have come medically even though there is still so much unknown.
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