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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