Researchers Find Gene Mutations That May Be a Key to Autism

HealthDay – 2 hrs 26 mins ago WEDNESDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic mutations that arise spontaneously, as opposed to being passed through generations, could play an important role in the development of autism, new research suggests.

Three research teams sequenced the genes of children with sporadic autism, meaning it did not run in their families, and compared the sequences with those of their parents and siblings. Their results were published in three separate articles on April 4 in the journal Nature.

"We found that 15 to 20 percent of sporadic patients could be explained by 'de novo'

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