Sunday, August 11, 2013

Genetic Link Of Autism and Cancer Identified: Unregulated Cell Growth May Be The Common Factor

Autism's Unexpected Link To Cancer Gene by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  August 11, 2013.

Follow the above link, read the article, and test your recall with a brief quiz.

(1)  About _______ percent of children with mutations in a gene call PTEN have autism.

(2)  True or False:  The finding recounted in this article clears up the causes of most cases of autism.

(3)  Not all individuals with this gene mutation will ____________________.

(4)  True or False:  Autism occurs naturally in the animal kingdom.

(5)  This link has led to the first clinical trial using the drug that ________________.

(6)  A Harvard geneticist offer the possibility that the cancer link to autism could merely be a manifestation of _________________________.

(7)  Like cancer, autism can involve ____________________.

(8)  ____________ is even more likely to result in autism than PTEN.

(9)  PTEN and tuberous sclerosis genes are part of the same network of genes that ____________

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