BERLIN -- More than half the cases of severe intellectual disability caused by genetic defects are the result of random mutations, not inherited mutations passed down from parents, a new study suggests.
The
findings of the small-scale European study give hope to parents of
children born with a severe intellectual disabilities who are worried
about having another baby with the same condition, said Anita Rauch,
chair of the Institute of Medical Genetics in Zurich who was one of the
study's lead authors.
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