In families that have children with autism, nearly half the risk of getting the brain disorder comes from inheriting an accumulation of common genetic variations from the parents, a new study shows.
The research, being published today in the journal
Molecular Autism, showed that in families with only one child with
autism, about 40 percent of the risk for the disorder is inherited. In
families with two or more children with autism, about 60 percent of the
risk is inherited.
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