Genetics and Autism (People who have degrees please!)?!


Question: Does autism have anything to do with genetics? How?


Answers: Does autism have anything to do with genetics? How?

Here are some places where you can find information on autism and genetics:

Gene Reviews on Autism (Produced by the University of Washington, funded by the National Institutes of Health):

http://www.genetests.com/servlet/access?...

Autism & Genes - PDF article (Produced by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development):

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pu...

Gene Linked to Autism in Families with More Than One Affected Child (National Institutes of Health News):

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2006/nimh-...

PubMed Search (citations from the medical literature):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez...

According to my research, no, it does not.

However, mothers, through their diet and prenatal and postnatal choices, can affect whether or not their child has autism.

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride explains more in the free videos here:

http://www.natural-health-information.co...

Dr. McBride has dealt personally with autism; her son was diagnosed with severe autism at age 3. Now 12, he is cured. Dr. McBride's research is fascinating and I highly recommend watching her video discussions.

No one really knows.

however, a few studies have shown that parents with one child with autism are more likely to have a second. Other studies haven't seen that link.

And there is no link between what a pregnant women or mother eats,drinks, does, etc... and autism, unlike what the other poster said. It is kind of an insulting statement blaming the women/mother for this very serious and difficult condition.

This is an excerpt from a letter written by Boyd Haley, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

As expected by science, extensive searching for a genetic cause of autism has not turned up a significant find that would explain the recent increased rate in autism. The latest genetic find, at best, might explain 0.5% of autism causation. Most agree that a genetic predisposition is likely (like those that lead to low glutathione levels), but that a toxic exposure is absolutely needed. Consider also, that this increased toxic exposure would have had to occur in all 50 states at about the same time as all states have reported similar increases in autism rates. Only something like the government recommended vaccine program fits this need for a time dependent, uniform exposure of a toxin throughout all the states.

You can read the rest of it here.
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/boyd_hale...

Autism is arrested emotional development. As such, there are multiple causes resulting in the same condition. Small children are typically clumsy, stubborn, impatient and unable to focus attention on anything except what is interesting at the moment. That's autism.

Statistics have shown a definite connection between autism and the following:

Premature birth
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles...

Caesarean birth
http://www.wombecology.com/caesareans.ht...

Blindness in infancy
http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/resour...

Being born a twin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/194932...

Precociousness at birth
http://www.autismcoach.com/gifted_with_l...

Severe illness in infancy
http://www.psychiatry.med.uwo.ca/ddp/med...

Allergies to milk
http://allergies.about.com/od/foodallerg...

Physical trauma at birth
http://www.psychiatry.med.uwo.ca/ddp/med...

Psychological trauma in infancy
http://www.find-health-articles.com/rec_...

Neglect in infancy
http://www.adoptionarticlesdirectory.com...

Usually when I list these, ideologues come out of the woodwork and give me a thumbs down. So, check the links out and make up your own mind.

And yes, genetics is involved, but only as a predispostion--as "t a" put it. See the link under physical trauma at birth. It also discusses genetic predisposition.

Its impossible to say that any disease does not have any correlation to genetics. For example, even though pneumonia is an infection, one could possibly be more susceptible to it than the next person due to genetics. As far as, "Is Autism considered a genetic condition?", the answer is still no. Billions of dollars are being spent to blame genetics on autism in order to exonerate sources that are being blamed, but they have not been able to do it except in a small percentage of children with autism. There are savy docs/scientists out there that have found treatments to negate symptoms caused by genetics, thus even if it were a genetic condition, it could still be successfully treated. Search on the internet for your answers; they are on here. Its a matter of googling the right key words. Autism does run in families, but there are many identical twins, where one has autism and the other doesn't. Many practitioners, who are successfully recovering children from autism, feel its because of pathogens and toxins which are trasmitted to the baby while the mother is pregnant, and the pathogens are also transmitted by sexual contact and by other means, depending.





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