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10-01-2008, 06:06 PM
A new study by a US research consortium has discovered that a small segment of chromosome 16 is either missing or duplicated in about 1 per cent of people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). What is surprising about this particular discovery is that the omission or duplication is not inherited from a parent but appears to occur spontaneously, perhaps around the time of conception.

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