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ScienceDaily — New research on the

genomics of autism confirms that the genetic roots of the disorder are

highly complicated, but that common biological themes underlie this

complexity. In the current study, researchers have implicated several

new candidate genes and genomic variants as contributors to autism, and

conclude that many more remain to be discovered. While the gene

alterations are individually very rare, they mostly appear to disrupt

genes that play important functional roles in brain development and

nerve signaling.

While an association between genomic

variants in certain nervous system processes and autism has been

hypothesized in the past, the current research definitively links these

biological functions to autism.

"This large study is the first to

demonstrate a statistically significant connection between genomic

variants in autism and both synaptic function and neurotransmission,"

said senior author S. White, Ph.D., a molecular geneticist and

director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at The

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