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Are there any recent medical discoveries regarding autism?
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Genetics: Some of the most cutting edge research are in genetics. Genetics researchers are honing in on a variety of mechanisms of genetic variance that they believe plays a role in autism. One is gene deletion, and one is gene duplication. Sometimes big chunks of DNA in autistic kids is missing. And sometimes its duplicated compared to their parents.
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