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Autism researchers make huge step in discovering genetic mutations that may lead to the disorder

Posted: May 26, 2014 at 7:44 am

Genome research has been a boon for unravelling the mysteries surrounding autism, allowing scientists to identify around 100 altered genes associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder.

But genome research has also compounded the puzzle of autism. Those who display the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may carry the same number of genetic mutations as their unaffected siblings. One person with ASD will carry mutations totally different from the next, and half of those diagnosed will have none of the known mutations at all.

There are no common patterns, says Stephen Scherer, director of the Hospital for Sick Childrens Centre for Applied Genomics.

By examining a different part of the genome than previously studied, a team of scientists led by Scherer has created a formula for determining which mutations are likely to lead to ASD and which are not. In the process, they also flagged more than 1,600 genes not previously linked to autism that may hold new clues for discovering what causes the disorder that now affects 1 in 68 children.

The new research, published in the journal Nature Genetics, suggests that autism begins to develop in the womb. It will help clinicians diagnose ASD earlier hugely important, since autism is easier to treat the earlier it is caught.

Kathryn Roeder, a statistical geneticist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who was not involved in the study, called it a tremendous stride forward, saying she planned to distribute it as soon as she could.

The new formula, Roeder said, will be able to erase a lot of noise.

The formula came about after researchers in Scherers lab decided to examine exons, small segments of DNA that are protein-coding. An average gene has 10 exons, but may have fewer or many more.

The team discovered that when they compared mutations in the exons of those who have ASD and those who do not, rather than comparing the whole genome, they came up with a statistically significant way of predicting ASD symptom risk.

You have to look at the small segment level, the exon level. Thats really the key here, says Scherer.

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Gene mutation found for aggressive form of pancreatic cancer

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25-May-2014

Contact: Scott LaFee slafee@ucsd.edu 619-543-6163 University of California - San Diego

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mutated gene common to adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) tumors the first known unique molecular signature for this rare, but particularly virulent, form of pancreatic cancer.

The findings are published in the May 25 advance online issue of Nature Medicine.

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, with roughly 45,220 new cases diagnosed and more than 38,400 deaths annually. Both numbers are rising. ASC cases are infrequent, but typically have a worse prognosis than more common types of pancreatic cancer.

"There has been little progress in understanding pancreatic ASC since these aggressive tumors were first described more than a century ago," said co-senior author Miles F. Wilkinson, PhD, professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine and a member of the UC San Diego Institute for Genomic Medicine. "One problem has been identifying mutations unique to this class of tumors."

In their paper, Wilkinson, co-senior author Yanjun Lu, PhD, of Tongji University in China, and colleagues report that ASC pancreatic tumors have somatic or non-heritable mutations in the UPF1 gene, which is involved in a highly conserved RNA degradation pathway called nonsense-mediated RNA decay or NMD. It is the first known example of genetic alterations in an NMD gene in human tumors.

NMD has two major roles. First, it is a quality control mechanism used by cells to eliminate faulty messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that help transcribe genetic information into the construction of proteins essential to life. Second, it degrades a specific group of normal mRNAs, including those encoding proteins promoting cell growth, cell migration and cell survival. Loss of NMD in these tumors may "release the brakes on these molecules, and thereby driving tumor growth and spread," said Wilkinson.

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Commentary: Academic freedom matters even for jerks

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ST. LOUIS Mike Adams is a tenured associate professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He is also a regular contributor to TownHall.com, and the author of such august tomes as Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts Womyn on Campus and Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel. He seems to me, in his public writings and attitudes, to be a virulently right-wing jerk.

Mike Adams is also extraordinarily popular among students, and he has many peer-reviewed scholarly publications. Nonetheless, Adams application for promotion to full professor in 2006 was allegedly denied on the basis of his public engagement. Despite my distaste for Adams dumb ideas about feminism, diversity and homosexuality, Im glad that Adams sued the university, and am delighted that last month he won, in an important ruling that (for now) preserves a vestige of academic freedom in this country.

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