Anthony Monaco from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University and a team of international researchers have been looking into the links between genes and autism in a study of 661 families in the U.K., the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. The team looked at four genes they thought might be linked to autism and found that two - LRRN3 and LRRTM3 - were significantly associated with susceptibility to autism. LRRN3 is thought to play a role in the development and maintenance of the nervous system while LRRTM3 is thought to be involved in organising the connections between brain cells.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325102415.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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