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Tero Toivanen

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autism research genetics gene SYN1 genetic cause epilepsy

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  • The results show for the first time the role of the SYN1 gene in autism, in addition to epilepsy, and strengthen the hypothesis that a deregulation of the function of synapse because of this mutation is the cause of both diseases
  • until now, no other genetic study of humans has made this demonstration.
  • The different forms of autism are often genetic in origin and nearly a third of people with autism also suffer from epilepsy.
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  • Although mutations in other genes involved in the development of synapses (the functional junction between two neurons) have previously been identified, this mechanism has never been proved in epilepsy in humans until the present study.
  • The results of the present study were published in the latest online edition of Human Molecular Genetics.
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