<![CDATA[UC Davis Study Authors: Autism is Environmental (Can We Move On Now?)]]>

1.0 link 156153 <![CDATA[UC Davis Study Authors: Autism is Environmental (Can We Move On Now?)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/uc-davis-study-autism-is_b_156153.html I have always said there may be a small percentage of people with autism spectrum disorder (perhaps those with Asperger Syndrome) whose symptoms are a result only of their genetic makeup, with no environmental factors involved at all.

But a new study out of UC Davis' MIND Institute says that it's time to abandon science's long, expensive, and not very fruitful quest to find the gene or genes that cause autism alone, without any environmental triggers.

"We need to keep (environmental)...

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