Long! Autism and Genetics - was Re: FW: National Asperger's Society

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yes, they're using it to underline the life long, incurable

baloney. it's " beyond " their control, " beyond " treatment.

Perhaps we should stress the sheer number of genetically triggerable

conditions whose national charities do NOT espouse " nothing you can

do " . Heart disease is now leaping - nobody is suggesting that you go

home, get fatter and wait for the attack, despite a strong genetic

link.

the grandparents thing is really depressing, I've also read this.

My grandfather (the one who died at 53) was dirt poor as a young

man, grew up in smoggy London and his whole family died of cancer,

seven brothers and one sister. I think they truly were canaries.

(I am hoping to have the genes of the long-lived one; I certainly

have his strange nose and his love of mashed potato, are these

reliable genetic indicators I wonder?)

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> > > > > he's not really , he's talking about a genetic pre-

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> > > > > inter-action between genes and environment. Both of those

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> > > > > intervention can work.

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