Researchers have identified a gene significantly correlated to autism.
BBC NEWS | Health | Autism gene breakthrough hailed
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...Autism is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person's ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by extreme behavioural challenges.
Scientists have long suspected that errors in a person's genetic blueprint play a part in autism.
Genetic code, DNA, is packaged in cells in the form of chromosomes, which are made up of strings of genes.
Experts have now located a region of one chromosome - 11p - and a gene called neurexin 1.
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