New autism susceptibility genes identified

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 06:06 in Health & Medicine

Mount Sinai researchers and the Autism Genome Project Consortium (AGP) announced today that they have identified new autism susceptibility genes that may lead to the development of new treatment approaches. These genes, which include SHANK2, SYNGAP1, DLGAP2 and the X-linked DDX53 - PTCHD1 locus, primarily belong to synapse-related pathways, while others are involved in cellular proliferation, projection and motility, and intracellular signalling. The findings were published today in Nature by researchers at the Seaver Autism Centre for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, together with an international consortium of researchers who make up AGP...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net